From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, "Michaël Cadilhac" <michael@cadilhac.name>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: show minor-mode menu when you click its mode-line lighter
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:55:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710041855.l94It4Ca007579@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IdUTv-0002Sp-MC@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 04 Oct 2007 13\:27\:27 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Well, my .2=E2=82=AC=C2=A0: I think this is useful, and I'd use it if I use=
> d this
> funky thing next to my keyboard called a mouse.
>
> Thus, it would not in fact be useful for you.
>
> Is there anyone for whom this would be useful? It is not unclean as a
> feature, and I would like it installed if it will be useful. But the
> absence of this feature is not a flaw. I see no reason to install
> one more feature if it won't actually be useful.
I think this would be useful. It provides an easy way for people that
don't know all the key bindings to use the commands provided by a
minor mode, and on top of that it is consistent with what we do for
major modes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 22:21 show minor-mode menu when you click its mode-line lighter Drew Adams
2007-09-28 19:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-02 21:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-03 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-03 23:17 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-10-04 16:59 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-04 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-04 18:55 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2007-10-08 18:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-08 18:10 ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-08 15:35 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-10-08 16:46 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-09 1:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-09 2:39 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-10 13:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-18 4:10 ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-09 1:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-09 16:48 ` Davis Herring
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