From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:45:26 +0100 Message-ID: <02e501c51613$f44724a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <00e301c509c1$9c761690$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200502152320.j1FNKd310641@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502172257.j1HMvJN10856@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502181412.j1IECkj14736@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502182259.j1IMx6g23511@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200502182329.j1INTud23572@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108770296 2963 80.91.229.2 (18 Feb 2005 23:44:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 00:44:55 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D2Hnc-0003hg-K7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:44:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D2I43-0008W2-1I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:01:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D2I2j-0008Hf-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:00:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D2I2S-0008A6-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:00:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D2I2S-00089v-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.112] (helo=av4-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D2Hol-0004Ug-4t; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: by av4-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 74EBC37E93; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:45:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.177]) by av4-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A4637E4B; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:45:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t2o58p162.telia.com [62.20.165.162]) by smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B78FD38007; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:45:46 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Luc Teirlinck" , "Kim F. Storm" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33613 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33613 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luc Teirlinck" > So I did talk about "setting" _in addition_ to looking at the choices, > without setting anything. But the point remains that just looking at > the possible choices for an option, without setting anything, poses a > danger if the whole buffer buttons are used, as I explained. I agree with your points, but is not this the case with most options dialoges? I myself have often found that I have lost track of what I am doing in those dialoges in other applications. To be sure to avoid trouble I then hit Cancel and start it over again. I guess many users do like that. I think this habit is useful and I believe it will carry over to Emacs as well if the options dialog is sufficiently similar to those found in other applications. And they do have something similar to "whole buffer buttons".