From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, 23372@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:43:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eg9rzh3q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2twinhqcz.fsf@newartisans.com> (message from John Wiegley on Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:02:16 -0400)
> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, nljlistbox2@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:02:16 -0400
>
> >> It _should_ be a user option. You've radically changed the default behavior
> >> of Emacs. Give individual users a simple way to undo your choice. This is
> >> at least as important as letting a user change the default appearance of a
> >> face.
>
> > I don't think we know enough about the impact of this feature to make that
> > decision at this time. We will have to see how it is accepted by the users
> > out there first. It could be deemed by the majority as the best invention
> > since sliced bread. Having a variable to disable it is a good fire escape
> > for now.
>
> I believe it should be a customizable option. Reason: I want to customize that
> option and turn it off; and I'd much rather use customize-option to do it than
> add Lisp code to my .emacs (which I almost never have to do for variables, so
> I don't see why this should be a special case).
I don't object too strongly to having this as a defcustom, but I still
want to point out that having 2 (or 3) people who want this as a
defcustom is not necessarily a large enough sample for us to change
past decisions before we release even a single Emacs version with the
feature. It is easy to make a variable into a defcustom; the inverse
is generally much harder.
> So, would someone please make this variable into a customizable
> option? I can do so by the weekend if no one else gets to it.
If it's going to be a defcustom, I guess we need suitable changes in
NEWS and in the user manual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-27 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-25 12:59 bug#23372: 25.0.93; `text-quoting-style' missing from manual and from customize N. Jackson
2016-04-25 22:26 ` bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style " Paul Eggert
2016-04-26 1:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-26 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 0:02 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-27 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-04-27 19:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-28 21:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-04-29 21:22 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-29 21:22 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-28 21:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-04-29 10:37 ` bug#23365 and Org-mode for 25.1 Phillip Lord
2016-04-29 21:23 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-30 7:48 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-30 7:51 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-29 12:54 ` bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize Nicolas Petton
2016-04-29 12:54 ` Nicolas Petton
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