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: A new filter-based customization interface Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:36:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: 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="6490"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Moakt Temporary Email <059393ccf4a8@drmail.in> Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 02 05:38:20 2025 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 1tTCyR-0001Ww-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2025 05:38:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTCxC-0004z7-Q1; Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTCx7-0004xb-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:36:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTCx6-0007tz-Kx; Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:36:56 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=2nsF/ln6CopzZ096TK5HxdBb99RK8UUKYku00vnGzug=; b=ZKfgIm+Dpo86 6ZG+Yyl+Zuw8oQH4S9RBckpIAHBT474DiEXhLriJ1Purcg0kdim3Ab+RxNSiJY055QHGw/x9iuc1o lmvM+YskRN9jnQKbGYg2jBJFAJnlNPBS+RPXu7uH7YkVP3MfiqqyeEbmSIUTiJOtTd/SP6HEx6jpX Erl4wB5CupU2fQvGbmg4tjuH2WwfMH6H8rb6HQFQ7TQmVGm1/A3+c37Igv0ky1TdovhPP4OECN059 Z5zpRYcgnmbay7cjmd7LcmC/ZNcXTTv/uL3g5Dnzcby6Y0/E/tqeT+fc6Og4EDZb8gE3P1BPjX3K+ HJbIurV4nIDQFrNqYZSmag==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tTCx6-0002KU-A3; Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:36:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Moakt Temporary Email on Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:49:23 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:327557 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. ]]] > Most softwares have a fixed menu to the left, that is always there, to > which you can always refer. And also sometimes tabs to the right (for > each entry in the left menu), for which also you can always refer. I don't think I use any program which looks like that. With Emacs, having _anything_ on the left side or the right side _all the time_ would be painful, since it would narrow the window available to display the text you are editing. However, is this point solely about the customization interface? In the customize interface it might be ok to have a column of something always present on the left side. I can't understand the semantics of the "tabs" part. If you _explain_ one concrete hypothetical example, that might make it clear. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)