From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:10:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x54qfukg34.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503020021.j220Lg620568@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:21:43 -0600 (CST)")
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
> "Hide/Show" is something more appropriate for things like outline
> mode, I'd say. "Appearance" would be a reasonably good name, and the
> cursor type belongs in there.
>
> A problem is that the Show/Hide menu currently contains 8 options all
> of which _really_ Show/Hide something where "Hide" has to be taken in
> the sense most other applications use that word, even though it is
> strictly speaking not 100% accurate. All of them are the following form:
>
> Tool-bar
>
> which does not make any sense without the Show/Hide in front of it.
A check-marked "Tool-bar" for an appearing toolbar in an "Appearance"
menu does not sound too absurd to me.
Whereas a checkmarked "Tool-bar" in a "Show/Hide" menu means that the
Tool-bar is shown or hidden. Which makes decidedly less sense. Of
course it is either of the two.
Call it nitpicking, but I don't see how the descriptive quality would
suffer under that change.
> I still do not understand why blink-cursor-mode is less important
> than any of the twelve options that are currently at top level, some
> of which seem to _really_ be technical details for advanced users,
> who probably do not use the menu bar anyway. For instance, "Use
> Directory Name in Buffer Names", which, like many of the other
> twelve, is downright confusing, because it seems to automatically
> apply to all file visiting buffers.
If the current menus are confusing, the solution is not to add more
confusing settings, but to fix the old ones.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 0:34 Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 8:24 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-01 12:18 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-01 14:11 ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-01 14:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 16:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 13:28 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 16:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 16:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 17:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 18:47 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-01 19:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-01 19:24 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-01 20:16 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-02 13:32 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-02 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-01 19:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-02 0:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-02 1:10 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-03-01 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-03 4:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-03 8:57 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-03 22:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-01 19:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 21:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-02 0:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-02 13:44 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-02 17:56 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-03 1:38 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-03 4:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-03 2:27 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 12:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-01 16:16 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-02 11:22 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-02 13:04 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-02 14:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-02 16:23 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-02 17:53 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-02 22:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-03 3:34 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-02 13:35 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-02 23:34 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-03 20:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 19:45 ` Per Abrahamsen
2005-03-04 23:44 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-05 1:20 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-06 21:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-06 22:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-06 23:00 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-08 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-08 3:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08 8:21 ` Kim F. Storm
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