From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4787: 23.1; in Customize, after showing Lisp expression, how to see normal? 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Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:42:08 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.51.229) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:42:08 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: AcpTYxIbwMR3XMmvSrC9nvffTL7QH4UhoQYA X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4F2ECD84.0068,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:56533 Archived-At: > 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.)