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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: John Anthony <john@jo.hnanthony.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Text Mode Menu
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:49:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbc32573-db35-4ce9-96df-6823fa8b9985@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5252F267.3080700@lanl.gov>

> > This means that you need not add words in the menu item label to say
> > that the thing is modal: "... Minor Mode".  (Yes, one cannot tell from
> > the toggle button alone that the mode is minor, but that is only minor
> > info. ;-))
> 
> Sure you can.  You can't turn off a major mode (unless you count
> `fundamental-mode').

Good point.  What you cannot tell from looking at a toggle button is
whether it represents a two-state variable or a minor mode.  But who
cares, in this context?



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-07 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-05  2:14 Text Mode Menu John Anthony
2013-10-05 14:24 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-07 15:47   ` John Anthony
2013-10-07 17:22     ` Drew Adams
2013-10-07 17:41       ` Davis Herring
2013-10-07 17:49         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-10-07 19:41       ` John Anthony
2013-10-07 20:44         ` Drew Adams
2013-10-07 21:52           ` John Anthony

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