From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:34:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108641062 22985 80.91.229.2 (17 Feb 2005 11:51:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 12:51:01 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1kBJ-0003oP-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:50:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1kRR-00078t-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:07:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jXz-0001cw-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jMg-0000P9-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jJ0-0008Si-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1j3S-0004Ts-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:38:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D1iz9-0006kQ-Kp; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:34:15 -0500 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-reply-to: 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33573 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33573 I think that it would be a very bad idea to move away from being able to manipulate (e.g. edit, set, reset, & save) individual options. A given custom buffer will perhaps have many options in several different states. There must be a way to save one or more options in the buffer but not necessarily all. Otherwise, we will get more confusion and operator error. I think it will be less confusing and will lead to less error, because it is simple and easy to predict. But to always use the entire Customize buffer as that selection would be restrictive, IMO. It is restrictive only in the sense that there are fewer different ways to set the same values. That is what makes it simple. The idea of having "selection" of options is a complication. It won't solve any of the problems, so I am not interested in it. We will not go there.