From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Interactive goto-line ?!
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:59:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6654-Fri27Feb2004145915+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5n075prm8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on 26 Feb 2004 20:28:47 +0100)
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 26 Feb 2004 20:28:47 +0100
> > >
> > > I agree. Which begs the question: Why on earth is it turned _off_
> > > by default?
> >
> > Conservatism. It's a matter of time.
>
> Ok, we should tackle this, I think. It is something that beginners
> complain about all the time, and that the more intelligent persons
> will be able to turn off by just clicking the first entry in the
> "Options" menu.
>
> How about if we have a command-line option -bw (and probably also -wb
> since many vision-impaired people prefer white on black) that will,
> among other things, turn off font-locking?
I'd rather suggest that the issue of making global-font-lock-mode on
by default be raised on the developers' mailing list each time a new
release is about to enter a pretest, until we succeed in convincing
The Powers That Be to agree to it. Until now, this was discussed a
few times, and you-all know the results...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-27 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-24 10:55 Newbie: Interactive goto-line ?! Karel Kubat
2004-02-24 10:58 ` Maurizio Loreti
2004-02-24 11:42 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-02-24 16:08 ` Brad Collins
2004-02-24 11:00 ` Karel Kubat
2004-02-24 11:34 ` Jiri Pejchal
2004-02-24 22:21 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-02-24 18:35 ` Floyd Davidson
2004-02-24 21:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-02-24 23:38 ` Floyd Davidson
2004-02-25 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.436.1077687252.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-25 6:31 ` Floyd Davidson
2004-02-25 8:56 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-25 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.452.1077703465.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-25 16:29 ` Floyd Davidson
2004-02-26 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.580.1077816762.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-26 17:50 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-26 18:22 ` David Kastrup
2004-02-26 20:47 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-02-27 9:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-02-27 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-27 15:17 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-02-27 15:29 ` David Kastrup
2004-02-27 16:04 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-02-29 15:29 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-03-01 4:07 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-03-01 4:47 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-03-01 6:12 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-02-27 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-27 16:58 ` David Kastrup
2004-02-27 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-27 18:22 ` David Kastrup
2004-02-27 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-26 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.586.1077822322.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-26 19:28 ` David Kastrup
2004-02-26 21:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-02-27 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.648.1077887747.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-27 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-27 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-26 17:36 ` Dan Katz
2004-02-25 17:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-26 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.541.1077775437.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-27 16:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-27 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-25 16:47 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-02-25 17:35 ` Floyd Davidson
2004-02-25 18:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-26 7:08 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-26 19:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
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