From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar? Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:06:13 +0100 Message-ID: <477F5695.5000607@gmx.at> References: <18303.12050.877970.348893@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200801050914.m059E68s012506@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199528754 21852 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 10:25:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:25:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 11:26:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JB6EI-0003R9-5S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:26:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JB6Dv-00005r-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:25:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JB6Bw-00070D-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JB6Bs-0006wk-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:23:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JB6Bs-0006w9-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JB6Br-0002CE-PJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Jan 2008 10:23:42 -0000 Original-Received: from N932P015.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.60.111]) [62.47.60.111] by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 05 Jan 2008 11:23:42 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+dAed25QydAQXz3AH8FBxv9mWxnP4K/X0GMF33gl ioerOG+tNXExR2 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200801050914.m059E68s012506@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86130 Archived-At: > Good idea. IMHO all major modes should have a menu, and all the minor > modes that have a significant number of key bindings should have one > too. It makes it easier for users to discover the functionality. Seconded. > Now in the case of hide-ifdef, it would be good if there was a menu > entry in the cc-mode menu to turn on this mode. That would make this > feature more discoverable for potential users. BTW, in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01503.html I proposed a patch to optionally shadow such text rather than hide it which would "make this feature less intimidating for potential users".