From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Options menu Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:12:04 +0900 Message-ID: References: <010e01c52c0d$ac93ede0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c52c6d$Blat.v2.4$713e68a0@zahav.net.il> <006901c52c9b$bcf6c890$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111356744 23206 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 22:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 23:12:23 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8ej-0003vy-9T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:12:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8vh-0008Ga-KZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:29:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8uG-0007c0-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:28:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8u7-0007VY-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:28:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8u7-0007V3-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:28:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DD8eW-0002Ae-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:12:08 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so262481wri for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:12:07 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=QY0v+oHWX6CF9xnci8ykUMdG4UQvfmZxHgAq3VK0aSCwf3s/RjLebc2CC0Y9vwQGd8HLt3oOAWNKMHYblPfvFmCWH1F8MtHrtxdRSE3ab+3d2tVi5jxlxsqyyw7jPVbfKJIOD291k9CrXqC6oW1XV8yoBBkjTJs43R4FZAE5Guc= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.19 with SMTP id h19mr413908wra; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:12:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:12:04 -0800 (PST) Original-To: David Kastrup 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34854 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34854 On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:26:02 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > b) one of the few additions we have is the "Hide/Show" menu. It > appears that similar functionality is available in other applications > as a top-level menu "View". There has pretty much consent on the list > that this does not seem to be a good option for Emacs (and it > certainly would be a large change). Actually I think the name "Hide/Show" was chosen precisely because it is used in other GUI applications, usually as a submenu of a top-level "View" menu. The top-level "View" menu in other apps tends to be much more general, with "Hide/Show" as a submenu for enabling various toolbars, status lines, etc. [Stuff like this tends to change periodically as the winds of GUI fashion blow of course; the above was true at the time the menu was initially added.] -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.