From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 4787@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, 4787@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4787: 23.1; in Customize, after showing Lisp expression, how to see normal?
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:42:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <847C941C66124C4B911E54B887D75E74@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF62585E594747879B10724DA23D4F5C@us.oracle.com>
> severity 4787 wishlist
1. There is no way that a user looking for a way to show the normal,
non-Lisp-expression display of an option value, would think to try "For Current
Display".
2. Mutually exclusive UI alternatives should be presented as such. Having
multiple menu items, of which a few are in fact alternatives, is misleading to
users.
There are two problems wrt this UI: (1) inappropriate menu-item name for what
`For Current Display" does and (2) no way to see that 3 of the menu items are
mutually exclusive alternatives.
(I'm not sure now where I saw "For Current Display", "For All Displays", and
"Show Lisp Expression". Perhaps that was from an earlier Emacs 24 build -
dunno. Now I see "Show Current Value" and "Show Saved Lisp Expression". But
the essential problems are the same as I've described.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-05 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-22 22:00 bug#4787: 23.1; in Customize, after showing Lisp expression, how to see normal? Drew Adams
2012-02-05 18:42 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-10-02 15:24 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-10-03 17:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-05 13:28 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-10-06 1:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-06 12:39 ` Mauro Aranda
2020-10-07 2:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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