From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Options menu Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:10:48 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200503202310.j2KNAmk09163@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <010e01c52c0d$ac93ede0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c52c6d$Blat.v2.4$713e68a0@zahav.net.il> <006901c52c9b$bcf6c890$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <002e01c52d9c$000e4350$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111361535 23550 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 23:32:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:32:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 00:32:15 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD9tu-0003TK-TT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:32:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAAt-0007Zo-RH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:49:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDA8R-0006kZ-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:47:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDA8N-0006ia-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:47:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDA8L-0006gR-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:47:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DD9Zt-0005ll-C6; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:11:25 -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 j2KNBO9N026498; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:11:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j2KNAmk09163; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:10:48 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se In-reply-to: <002e01c52d9c$000e4350$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34862 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34862 Lennart Borgman wrote: 3) Choose menu "Save Options". What happens on your computer? On my computer debug-on-error is saved as far as I can see. If I understood the code in menu-bar.el correctly (I did not try out anything), then an oversimplified description of the situation if you choose "Save Options" is: 1. The following options get saved if their value was set either through the menu bar _or_ through Custom.: scroll-bar-mode debug-on-quit debug-on-error menu-bar-mode tool-bar-mode save-place uniquify-buffer-name-style fringe-mode fringe-indicators case-fold-search display-time-mode auto-compression-mode current-language-environment default-input-method text-mode-hook. In as far as text-mode-hook is concerned, the entire current value of text-mode hook gets saved, not just the part mentioned in the Options Menu. This could easily be inappropriate. All one can do is hope for the better. 2. The following options get saved to the custom-set-variables form, no matter how they got their value: line-number-mode column-number-mode cua-mode show-paren-mode transient-mark-mode global-font-lock-mode blink-cursor-mode 3. Other options never get saved. I believe that we might have to clean this situation up after the release, as part of making changes and bug fixes to Custom. Sincerely, Luc.