From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 11:45:58 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200205051745.g45Hjwx01793@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200204302119.g3ULJAP06813@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xznzj30j0.fsf_-_@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205031825.g43IP3e00651@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xwuuk6b4q.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205041501.g44F1vm01192@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xvga3ah36.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020620916 25306 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2002 17:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 17:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Pavel@Janik.cz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 174Q7g-0006Zx-00 for ; Sun, 05 May 2002 19:48:36 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 174QES-0005xC-00 for ; Sun, 05 May 2002 19:55:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174Q7F-0004RH-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 13:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174Q59-0004E2-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 13:45:59 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g45Hjwk27653; Sun, 5 May 2002 11:45:58 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g45Hjwx01793; Sun, 5 May 2002 11:45:58 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-Reply-To: <5xvga3ah36.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3608 IMO, the custom interface is overwhelming in the sense that it doesn't really prioritize the options. So, if we had a command to customize a selected list of the 50 most important options, using the existing Custom facility, would that do the job? Another idea: it would also be possible to sort the options in any given Custom buffer, if we assigned them importance levels. The more important options could come first. Another idea: the Custom buffer could show the important options for any given topic, and end with a button Show Less-Important Options with which you could see the rest of the options for that topic. Perhaps we could do that whenever the number of options exceeds a certain threshold. I don't entirely understand this suggestion: [x] Abbreviation mode [advanced] [x] Revert mode [advanced] What does "advanced" mean here?