From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Date: 06 May 2002 11:17:47 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xhelliqis.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <87lmaxeqkj.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020693642 17986 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2002 14:00:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 14:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, Pavel@Janik.cz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 174j2g-0004fz-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 16:00:42 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 174j9r-0007l4-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 16:08:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174hLl-0007Tp-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 08:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 174dgA-0007TS-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 04:17:06 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id BC7EC7C035; Mon, 6 May 2002 08:16:59 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <87lmaxeqkj.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3634 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3634 Miles Bader writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > The one option per package goal seems an impossible one--just pick up > > any Emacs package and try to decide what would be that single option > > you will show. I'm unable to do that, FWIW: too many are useful. > > That's true in general, but for packages which can be `enabled or > disabled' (e.g. global minor modes), this would be a very good way to > present them. > > That's how I interpreted Kim's suggestion -- the `short list' would > allow one to enable or disable various features, and the [advanced] > button would jump to the ordinary custom page where one could change the > details of how the feature works. Exactly. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk