From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'David Kastrup'" <dak@gnu.org>, <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: customizing key definitions with Customize
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:58:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007401c8b7b0$cdf17660$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8663teuo1o.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
> > I can see some use value in not always presenting a user, by
> > default, with a complete keymap to customize. That's all. That
> > doesn't mean we couldn't also provide a way for a user
> > to go ahead and customize the whole keymap. I'm thinking of
> > user convenience and possible confusion.
> >
> > Perhaps you are right. I think that the first task is to define the
> > mechanism so it can implement both modes. Then we could
> > decide which of the two modes should be the default.
>
> The problem with customizing the whole keymap is that it should shake
> the modifications out and store just the difference against
> the default map. Otherwise, any modifications of the defaults by the
> package authors will not picked up.
I agree with what each of you has said here.
> Also we use the keymaps to store toolbar and menubar data, and we do
> that in a precomputed manner. That's not something we want
> to throw at the user by default.
I'm not sure I understand completely what you mean, but I think I agree with
that also. I do think, though, that it will be good, in general, to be _able_ to
let users customize menu bindings for at least some keymaps.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-16 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-11 19:40 customizing key definitions with Customize Drew Adams
2008-05-11 22:02 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-11 22:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-11 22:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-11 23:02 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-11 23:09 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-11 23:19 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-11 23:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-11 23:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-12 20:42 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-14 5:24 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-12 8:59 ` Reiner Steib
2008-05-12 20:58 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-12 11:20 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-12 14:01 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-13 0:03 ` Juri Linkov
2008-05-13 0:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-13 14:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-13 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-05-14 1:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-14 16:40 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-15 4:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-15 17:39 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-16 8:01 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-16 17:46 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-16 18:00 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-16 23:58 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-05-17 5:00 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-16 7:51 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-18 1:22 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-18 9:07 ` Key/menu bug? (was: customizing key definitions with Customize) David Kastrup
2008-05-13 15:07 ` customizing key definitions with Customize David Reitter
2008-05-13 19:05 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-14 5:23 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-13 5:16 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-14 5:23 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-14 16:39 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-15 4:36 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-15 17:39 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-16 8:02 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-16 17:46 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-16 23:58 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-12 20:42 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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