From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: defcustom :version Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:21:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <15499.1142047137@olgas.newt.com> <200603110447.k2B4lbt10750@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200603121454.k2CEsDf05104@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200603140326.k2E3QFs05473@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200603142332.k2ENW0928869@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142454234 22599 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2006 20:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wohler@newt.com, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 21:23:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJcX6-0008E1-UT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:23:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJcX6-0006FL-8y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJcWZ-0006D1-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:23:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJcWY-0006BU-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:23:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJcWX-0006B6-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJcb2-0004Yo-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:27:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FJcUr-0002iW-3S; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:21:29 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200603142332.k2ENW0928869@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:32:00 -0600 (CST)) 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:51680 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62271 Archived-At: Here's an idea. customize-changed could work like customize-browse, except that it would show only the groups that cover settings which have changed meanings. What do you think? That would obviously not reduce the total number of listed options. (There quite simply is no way to reduce that substantially.) It would not help somebody wanting to take a look at all of them (quite to the contrary). That is true, but so what? The idea is beneficial in other ways. Most people don't use all of Emacs. They don't particularly want to look at all the changed options. They want to see all the changed options that are relevant to their usage. This feature will be very helpful in doing that.