Re: unnecessary fringe-indicators defcustom creates trouble

[Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>]

Kim Storm wrote:

   Fine with me, but others may object to removing the ability to set the
   indicators from the menu bar...

My patches do not _preclude_ re-adding them to the menubar.  But since
we can not possibly add _all_ options to the menu bar (to avoid people
ever having to use Custom), it would seem that the most important
criteria for adding an option to the menubar are that it either should
be something that many users would want to set straight when they
begin using Emacs, before having read any documentation (like say,
disabling the blinking cursor) or something that people might want to
change several times during a session.  indicate-buffer-boundaries
fits neither criterion.

Enabling a user to set all possible 81 values of indicate-buffer-boundaries
through the menu bar is possible, but would be rather elaborate.
Allowing to set only a subset of the possible values through the
menubar might give problems when trying to indicate which value is
enabled in the menubar, if the user chose another value in some other way.

The option did not exist in 21.4, so it never was customizable through
the menubar in any released version.  It is a complex option and hence
is better customized through Custom.

Sincerely,

Luc.