From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:14:23 +0100 Message-ID: <00c601c510e3$419a50a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <003f01c50eb2$36ec71c0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108201442 5385 80.91.229.2 (12 Feb 2005 09:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 12 10:44:01 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CztoW-0004S2-PX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:43:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Czu3d-0006qO-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cztal-0000em-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:29:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CztaY-0000dA-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CztaV-0000cU-7s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:29:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.107] (helo=av2-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CztMw-0005ZU-JY; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:15:15 -0500 Original-Received: by av2-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6AE8D37E4C; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:15:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.177]) by av2-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576FA37E42; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:15:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t4o58p131.telia.com [195.252.57.131]) by smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DF5A3800A; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:15:09 +0100 (CET) Original-To: , "Kim F. Storm" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33287 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33287 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Stallman" > Being able to load such values and edit them before saving them > is very useful. > > I prefer "S => F" with a message in the echo area telling the > user to use "Set All" to apply the values. > > If users often want to examine these values before putting them into > effect, then the split-up could be useful. But if users nearly always > want to Set these values, it would be just a nuisance to have to do so > with a separate operation. > > Can we get any guidance on this question from other applications? I do not know of any application that distinguishes between Set and Save. However all operations in "options dialouges" in MS Windows either operates on the fields or Set+Saves all the field values in the dialouge. The operations on the field could be "reset" (to value upon entry of the dialouge, very common), browse for values (dir, files, fairly common), choosing from a list (fairly common). This suggests to me that the most intuitive operation would be "S => F".