From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu. Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:21:43 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200503020021.j220Lg620568@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200503010034.j210Y4k13181@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011608.j21G8OL15703@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503011726.j21HQxZ17274@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109723906 898 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 00:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 01:38:25 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6HqI-00082Y-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:35:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6I8w-000061-RO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:55:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6I3Q-0006DE-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6I3B-00067Z-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6I3B-00060X-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:49:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6Hep-00019l-MZ; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:24:07 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j220O79N005126; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:24:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j220Lg620568; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:21:43 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: dak@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:44:15 +0100) 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:34022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34022 David Kastrup wrote: "Hide/Show" is something more appropriate for things like outline mode, I'd say. "Appearance" would be a reasonably good name, and the cursor type belongs in there. A problem is that the Show/Hide menu currently contains 8 options all of which _really_ Show/Hide something where "Hide" has to be taken in the sense most other applications use that word, even though it is strictly speaking not 100% accurate. All of them are the following form: Tool-bar which does not make any sense without the Show/Hide in front of it. Thus if you rename Show/Hide to Appearance all eight would have to be renamed to: Show/Hide Tool-bar or something similar if you object against "Hide". (I personally believe that people understand what is meant with "Hide".) blink-cursor-mode would be the only other one among the nine. I still do not understand why blink-cursor-mode is less important than any of the twelve options that are currently at top level, some of which seem to _really_ be technical details for advanced users, who probably do not use the menu bar anyway. For instance, "Use Directory Name in Buffer Names", which, like many of the other twelve, is downright confusing, because it seems to automatically apply to all file visiting buffers. If showing directory names in duplicate buffer names (instead of a number) is something that is not just desirable for a minority of users, make it the default. Sincerely, Luc.