From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:04:47 +0300 Message-ID: <83va7grsow.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org> <835zzhv2zs.fsf@gnu.org> <001fc136-b693-5c2a-3347-1ab1c9aa2fd2@orcon.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536415407 19148 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2018 14:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 14:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, npostavs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 16:03:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fydpY-0004qK-Qw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 16:03:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fydrf-0001nY-6D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 10:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fydqz-0001QJ-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 10:04:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fydqv-0000mH-6U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 10:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fydqv-0000lS-0f; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 10:04:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3286 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fydqu-0001PI-I5; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 10:04:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <001fc136-b693-5c2a-3347-1ab1c9aa2fd2@orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Sat, 8 Sep 2018 23:37:41 +1200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229490 Archived-At: > Cc: npostavs@gmail.com, hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, > phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Phil Sainty > Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 23:37:41 +1200 > > On 08/09/18 01:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> User options can belong to multiple groups though, can't they? > >> Perhaps an initial implementation is as simple as identifying > >> such options, adding them to a common group, and linking to that > >> group from the splash screen? > > > > I suggested that in a recent thread, so I'm in favor of identifying > > these groups. > > Oh, very good. I didn't remember it, but perhaps I read that. > > Were there other particular user options which were mentioned when > you first raised this idea? The idea I described was to do it the other way around: first identify the groups of users, and then come up with the list of options pertinent for each group. > (Do you remember which thread that was?) My message was here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-08/msg00794.html