From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Anthony Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Text Mode Menu Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 01:52:25 +0400 Message-ID: <20131007215225.GA1074@jo.hnanthony.com> References: <20131005021456.GA22666@jo.hnanthony.com> <71dde3f7-c8ae-4aa8-904f-f72ce90e3d33@default> <20131007154710.GA32758@jo.hnanthony.com> <20131007194113.GA809@jo.hnanthony.com> <03daa71f-45fc-4800-b75d-0f81c23a2485@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381182823 3526 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2013 21:53:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 21:53:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 07 23:53:46 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VTIkM-0001RI-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:53:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33606 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTIkL-0004k8-3G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTIkC-0004hu-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTIk6-0007Bx-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [198.46.132.138] (port=59978 helo=jo.hnanthony.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTIk6-0007Bp-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:53:30 -0400 Original-Received: from jo.hnanthony.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by jo.hnanthony.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r97LqQws001124; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 01:52:26 +0400 Original-Received: (from john@localhost) by jo.hnanthony.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id r97LqPNV001123; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 01:52:25 +0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03daa71f-45fc-4800-b75d-0f81c23a2485@default> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 198.46.132.138 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163972 Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 01:44:10PM -0700, Drew Adams wrote: > No, I hope you don't. ;-) That is, the fact that you notice such > inconsistency and it bothers you is a *good* thing for Emacs. > It is good to find people particularly interested in the usability > of Emacs menus. This has generally not been a super high priority > among Emacs developers. But they will likely listen to your > suggestions. But hurry, before you adapt to the status quo. ;-) Yes, it really seemed like a bit of a blind spot that I could make a lot of fixes for quickly and learn about the codebase and internal workings of major modes from. Cheers for the positivity and encouragement. I'll most likely submit my first patch tomorrow (sans redundancy in labels) and have a bunch of good I can do while I build to contributing something more substantive. -- John Anthony