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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jeff B <Jeff_B.atHome@clowderHouse.net>
Cc: dimech@gmx.com, 49050@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances.
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:08:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7hwz4ux.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df24e8a5-ba34-1402-8d6d-f7fc75058336@clowderHouse.net> (message from Jeff B on Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:48:52 -0400)

> Cc: 49050@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Jeff B <Jeff_B.atHome@clowderHouse.net>
> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:48:52 -0400
> 
> • Instead I would add an accessibility item either as an item to the
>     Options menu or, better still, add it as a separate item to the menu
>     bar.  That would make it easy to stumble upon.  :-)

I agree that having that in the menus and/or on the tool bar is a
better alternative.

> • Which brings me to another point.  I accept that I probably have
>     some weirdness in my environment which causes Save Options to
>     fail, so solving that problem is probably on me.  BUT since saving
>     options has never worked for me I am particularly sensitive to the
>     issue of saving options.
> 
>     As I understand it (because it has never worked for me) to save
>     options chosen one not only has to make changes somewhere under
>     the Options item but then one has to re-enter the Options menu and
>     explicitly save the changes.  If it were up to me I'd reorganize that
>     so that each Options menu item had Cancel, Apply and Save buttons
>     so that you can save right then and there.
> 
>     HOWEVER I recognize that would be a major refactoring of the code
>     (I have been a hard-core programmer all of my professional life!)
>     which would take a lot of work so it probably won't happen.  BUT, as
>     I said, if it were up to me I'd do it.

"Save Options" _must_ work.  If it doesn't, it's a bug that needs to
be fixed.  The only situation where Save Options is not expected to
save them is when you invoke Emacs with the -Q or -q switch.

So if you invoke Emacs without -q/-Q, and Emacs doesn't save the font
you customize, please report that with all the details as a bug, and
allow us to fix it.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-17 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-15 16:47 bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances Jeff B
2021-06-15 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-15 22:45   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-16 14:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-16 15:07       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-16 16:03         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-17 14:13           ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-17 18:48             ` Jeff B
2021-06-17 19:08               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-17 19:31               ` Christopher Dimech
     [not found]   ` <5a3fc745-5500-94fb-5725-bf6b05cd1b0e@clowderHouse.net>
     [not found]     ` <83r1h32bkx.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <35cbc6ad-32a5-d89c-77eb-582e29c57d8e@clowderHouse.net>
2021-06-16  2:25         ` Eli Zaretskii

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