From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:42:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o8iv3ac3.fsf@gnus.org> <838s9zavcx.fsf@gnu.org> <87im92nmd6.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2hx91u1.fsf@gnu.org> <87czz9enc6.fsf@gmail.com> <83sg858yjr.fsf@gnu.org> <878s9wetdb.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32079"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 18 06:50:44 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8f6-0008Fg-6a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 06:50:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8f5-0000Io-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8Wi-0001Eh-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8Wg-0004F7-RZ; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kq8Wf-0002Er-0c; Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:42:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878s9wetdb.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:20:32 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261155 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > What's wrong with Options->Save Options? > Nothing, except that people have been conditioned to expect that > changes in options get saved automatically, so we could do that for > them if they make the changes via the menus. That idea sounds good to me. Or maybe ask the user whether to save the change when the user requests a change. Or offer buttons "Apply permanently" and "Apply for this session". -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)