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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: `customize-customized' and mode variable of a minor mode
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:43:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4616BF1B.30004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMKEHMDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

Drew Adams wrote:
>>> Toggling a mode changes the value of the mode variable. Why would a user
>>> want to save that new value? You might toggle a (global) minor
>>> mode several times during an Emacs session. Turning the mode on and
>>> off doesn't imply that you want to change the saved value. I don't see
>>> a use case for that.
>> If the global minor mode is at the state currently saved by Custom it
>> will not show up in customize-customized.
> 
> True, and if it happens to be in the opposite state, then it will show up.
> 
>> I often put toggling of global minor modes in the menus.
> 
> So do I.
> 
>> It seems conventient to me to be able to save the state of those
>> minor modes through customize-customized then.
> 
> I can see the use case you describe. I guess it depends on the use pattern
> and the nature of the global minor mode. At least some mode toggling is not
> tentative configuring, and at least some people might not want some mode
> changes to be candidates for saving.
> 
> There may be no good way to satisfy all use scenarios and user preferences
> for this. Another user option perhaps?

I think that is the way out if it is needed.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-06 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-06 18:10 `customize-customized' and mode variable of a minor mode Drew Adams
2007-04-06 19:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-06 19:48   ` Drew Adams
2007-04-06 19:59     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-04-06 21:14       ` Drew Adams
2007-04-06 21:43         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-04-07 12:40 ` Richard Stallman

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