From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: squash@math.ufl.edu (Jonathan LF King) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Custom erases comment when default value restored. Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:53:42 -0500 (EST) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200401132153.i0DLrgk15912@ottawa.math.ufl.edu> Reply-To: "Prof. Jonathan LF King" NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074052874 29157 80.91.224.253 (14 Jan 2004 04:01:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:01:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 14 05:01:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AgcDP-0002mI-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:01:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Agc6f-0000cJ-I2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Agc6V-0000bm-Lk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:54:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Agc5z-0000Xg-Ec for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:54:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [128.227.168.254] (helo=math.ufl.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AgWTo-0007UV-EX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:53:44 -0500 X-Envelope-From: squash@ottawa.math.ufl.edu X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: from ottawa.math.ufl.edu (ottawa.math.ufl.edu [128.227.168.149]) by math.ufl.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7/clas1.17) with ESMTP id i0DLrgD01431 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:53:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from squash@localhost) by ottawa.math.ufl.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7/clas1.9) id i0DLrgk15912; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:53:42 -0500 (EST) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6558 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6558 This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit) of 2002-06-19 on diashi.clas.ufl.edu configured using `configure --prefix=/opt/emacs_21.2 --without-gcc --mandir=/opt/emacs_21.2/share/man --infodir=/opt/emacs_21.2/share/info --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=yes --with-tiff' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: C locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: /-------------------------------------------------------------\ Dear Emacs Suppose I have customized a variable. The STATE button gives me the option to Erase the customization. Unfortunately, this ALSO erases the comment that I just wrote, explaining (to me) why I don't want to touch this variable and want its default value. So perhaps this isn't a bug report, but rather a feature request. Could you put-in *two* erasures under the STATE button? Maybe Erase customization value Erase customization value and comment I suppose one also might want just Erase customization comment NOTE: Sometimes I don't actually want to erase the customization; I just want to know what the default value is. Within Custom, is there a fast way to see the dft value WITHOUT erasing the current value? Sincerely, -Prof. Jonathan King \_____________________________________________________________/ Recent input: C-x : C-x C-x . C-x C-x . C-x C-x SPC ? C-k C-o C-p s i g b C-c C-c C-g C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-k C-y C-a C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-f C-f C-f C-f C-y C-k C-c C-c y o M-b C-k t e m p s p n SPC C-v C-v C-v C-v M-. M-, p s C-x m C-g C-g Recent messages: Sending...done Wrote /home/math0/squash/Mail/temp Expunging deleted messages...done Saving file /home/math0/squash/Mail/RMAIL... Wrote /home/math0/squash/Mail/RMAIL Mark set [2 times] Expunging deleted messages...done (No changes need to be saved) Fontifying *mail*... (regexps........) keyboard-quit: Quit keyboard-quit: Quit -- Prof. Jonathan LF King Mathematics dept, Univ. of Florida ,