From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Text properties gone from edit menu
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:59:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835ypw5qji.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sft075f4.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:52:47 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:52:47 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> I thought it was only agreed to free up `M-o' as a prefix for ELPA
> >> packages, not to remove the text properties menu from the menu bar as
> >> well.
>
> > The "Text Properties" menu item makes no sense without facemenu being
> > available.
>
> But removing the facemenu map from `M-o' doesn't equate to facemenu not
> "being available", right?
The decision was that this entire feature is not useful enough to have
bindings and menu items by default. It started with M-o, but ended
with much more (as happens frequently in our discussions, where the
tail not only wags the dog, but eventually kills it as well).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-03 7:59 UTC|newest]
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2022-02-02 13:47 ` Text properties gone from edit menu Po Lu
2022-02-02 14:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-02-02 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-02 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 1:06 ` Po Lu
2022-02-03 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 7:52 ` Po Lu
2022-02-03 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-02-03 10:04 ` Po Lu
2022-02-02 15:51 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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