From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:16:22 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200306130616.h5D6GONU017575@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200306130500.h5D50pV05542@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200306130510.h5D5A6f05549@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055484954 19233 80.91.224.249 (13 Jun 2003 06:15:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 13 08:15:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Qhq1-0004xX-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:15:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19QiBq-0001qJ-00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:37:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Qhrm-00010t-NT for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19QhrX-0000zE-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:16:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19QhrU-0000sR-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:16:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QhrU-0000pC-4m; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5D6GP0i017577; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:16:25 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h5D6GONU017575; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:16:25 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck Original-cc: karl@gnu.org Original-cc: schwab@suse.de Original-cc: keichwa@gmx.net Original-cc: rms@gnu.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15082 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15082 > >From my previous message: > > But note that `fill-column' can be given mode-local values > using mode hooks, so there would not seem to be any particular need > for hyper-specialized variables like `info-fill-column'. > > Except maybe for Custom's sake. But still, I believe that once one > starts with this, the flood gates would be open for countless similar > special-file-fill-column variables, and the user who really wants this > can use mode hooks, even though this might be less convenient than > using Custom. It would be much more worthwhile to teach custom how to do such things so that users will be able to set all variables per-mode via custom. Stefan