From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize UI Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:34:17 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87bpeqtjpk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87zl2g24xy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zl2a3b8x.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <87fx42o0n1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268619391 401 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2010 02:16:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 15 03:16:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqzqy-0006c4-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:16:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nqzqx-0004gG-Vv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nqzqs-0004g9-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56644 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nqzqn-0004fy-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqzqi-0002BK-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:16:13 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:43901 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqzqh-0002BE-Rr; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:16:08 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.68.205.cable.starman.ee [82.131.68.205]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9ABE3F409D; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:16:00 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <87fx42o0n1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:05:06 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121983 Archived-At: >> ** Move sub-group links to the top of the Customize buffer. >> This will make the group tree navigation much easier. >> Most file browsers do the same: they put links to subdirectories >> before links to files (in Customize, options are analogous to files, >> and groups - to directories). > > This is only reasonable if the list of sub-groups is sufficiently small > that they don't push the actual options off the screen. I don't know > the degree to which this is possible in typical customize groups. The same problem exists now when a large list of options pushes links to sub-groups off the screen. This can be resolved by creating a sub-group and moving such options to the new sub-group, so only links to sub-groups will remain in the group. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/