From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newer versions of emacs file open Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:38:20 +0100 Message-ID: <47584FAC.5040305@gmail.com> References: <475739CF.8010801@mmri.us> <47573CD0.60100@gmail.com> <87ir3bubr0.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <47584F3A.5000503@mmri.us> 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 1196969933 28872 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 19:38:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "admin@mmri.us" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 06 20:39:03 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 1J0MYl-0008Mb-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:39:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0MYV-00085J-3X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:38:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0MYF-00084o-Hn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0MYE-000848-0h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0MYD-000844-Pa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0MYD-0003nu-BD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:62085 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J0MYB-0007Rt-5I; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:38:23 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <47584F3A.5000503@mmri.us> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071205-2, 2007-12-05), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1J0MYB-0007Rt-5I. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1J0MYB-0007Rt-5I 4cf849e227aa76853c1e2306c09e1ca3 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:49894 Archived-At: admin@mmri.us wrote: > 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. M-x customize-option