From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 15599@debbugs.gnu.org, John Anthony <john@jo.hnanthony.com>
Subject: bug#15599: [PATCH] Inferior Lisp Mode Menu
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:00:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <69159453-2a43-42b8-b1a3-c9da282490c4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4n86lp2h.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
> > I'd leave such an item always enabled.
>
> Agreed. I can see two reasons for it:
> - these "enabled" tests are run, pretty much all the time, so they
> need to be sufficiently "quick" not to disrupt normal work. Testing
> if the last sexp is properly balanced may have to scan megabytes of
> text (even if it usually is not the case), so it can slow things down
> noticeably.
> - it should be reasonably obvious to the user why a menu entry is
> disabled, and I think most users wouldn't find this one to be
> obvious.
Yes. The first reason is pretty important, and needs to be taken into
consideration even when there are not megabytes to scan etc. Pretty
much any :enable or :visible test needs to be simple & quick.
Dunno whether this is mentioned in the manual, but I think it should be,
as a useful guideline.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-24 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-12 17:08 bug#15599: [PATCH] Inferior Lisp Mode Menu John Anthony
2013-10-12 17:21 ` John Anthony
2013-10-12 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-19 2:48 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-22 0:56 ` John Anthony
2013-10-22 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-24 7:25 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-23 21:47 ` John Anthony
2013-10-24 7:20 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-24 14:05 ` John Anthony
2013-10-25 2:36 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-24 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-24 15:00 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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