From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FW: loaded minor modes should be added to `mode-line-mode-menu' andOptions menu Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:51:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <004801c86ce6$07803620$9eb22382@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202788322 26290 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 03:52:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 12 04:52:25 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 1JOmBx-0006ah-L1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:52:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOmBT-00086i-9Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:51:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOmAp-0007li-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:51:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOmAo-0007kT-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:51:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOmAo-0007kI-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:51:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOmAn-0006K7-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:51:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JOmAn-0003Ji-8T; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:51:09 -0500 In-reply-to: <004801c86ce6$07803620$9eb22382@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com) 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:88825 Archived-At: It would be better for these menus to reflect the user's own context: to show which minor modes have been defined, whether they were predefined as part of Emacs or not. It makes at least as much sense for a user to be able to access, by menu, the modes s?he actually uses as modes s?he might never use. That would make the menu of modes so large it would be hard to use at all.