From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Displaying the state of isearch toggles [was Re: ASCII-folded search] Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9da72b40-0236-4edd-983e-90c54ca7f827@default> References: <> <<87h9pq18ae.fsf@mail.linkov.net>> <<83a8vh5316.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435639200 11294 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2015 04:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:40:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, kaushal.modi@gmail.com, stephen@xemacs.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Eli Zaretskii , Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 30 06:39:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9nKk-0004N8-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 06:39:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9nKj-0004r4-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:39:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9nKV-0004qq-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:39:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9nKU-00007I-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:39:31 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:44323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9nKQ-0008WT-VO; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t5U4dOtQ018305 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:39:25 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t5U4dNdo027161 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:39:23 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0007.oracle.com (abhmp0007.oracle.com [141.146.116.13]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t5U4dNSL004665; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:39:23 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83a8vh5316.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187662 Archived-At: > > Do we want to go down this path? >=20 > Maybe we do. Are there good alternatives, when there are so many > non-orthogonal options? Being able to call up such a dialog box, to set several attributes at once for the current context (i.e., as opposed to setting a static and persistent user option), is a plus. Just as it is for setting the default attribute preferences (i.e., one or more user options). But such a dialog box should not be the only way to change individual attribute values. That can be done quickly using toggle commands and/or toggle menu items. Being able to change multiple search attributes at once, as in a dialog box is useful. So is being able to quickly change any of them individually. When you say "non-orthogonal", presumably you are suggesting that changing one attribute automatically either changes some others or restricts some others. Which such search attributes did you have in mind?