From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "admin@mmri.us" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newer versions of emacs file open Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:26 -0500 Message-ID: <47584F3A.5000503@mmri.us> References: <475739CF.8010801@mmri.us> <47573CD0.60100@gmail.com> <87ir3bubr0.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196969841 28551 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 19:37:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:37:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 06 20:37:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0MXD-0007hm-HD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:37:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0MWw-0007KR-Nz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:37:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0MWQ-00079Z-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0MWO-00078m-LK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0MWO-00078g-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail62.opentransfer.com ([76.162.254.62]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0MWN-0003FO-EM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:36:32 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 20999 invoked by uid 399); 6 Dec 2007 19:36:27 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO gateway.localdomain) (68.54.240.189) by mail62.opentransfer.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2007 19:36:27 -0000 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC742697A5 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:36:26 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071030 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 In-Reply-To: <87ir3bubr0.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49893 Archived-At: What really makes the dialog window useless is that I cannot cut and paste between emacs and the dialog window!. It is an absolutely useless affair. Emacs CLI is about the most efficient I have seen, no need for this crazy ineffective default window setting. What would really be great (and this is how most responsible Unix programs work) is if all the preferences a user selects for emacs is written to e.g. .emacs in the users home directory. That will take care of unwanted and annoying defaults. It clearly does not do it right now and I have to fight through settings to get it back to where I want it after a new install.