From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'martin rudalics' <rudalics@gmx.at>,
"'Stephen J. Turnbull'" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: option doc strings and Customize tags
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:36:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvprljzczv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007e01c93991$e714c8f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:45:15 -0700")
>> normally long values will either be indirect (eg, the value of
>> variable whose name can be used instead of the value), or they will be
>> compounds in which case a compound widget will be used so that the
>> components can be changed.
> "Normally", no. Typically, yes.
I think we should just add the value to the menu, together with some
sanity check: if the printed representation of the value is too long,
then shorten it by replacing the middle chars with "...", and let the
code provide an override for those few remaining cases where it's
not satisfactory.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 18:12 option doc strings and Customize tags Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:09 ` martin rudalics
2008-10-28 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-30 5:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-10-30 6:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-29 2:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-29 6:45 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-10-29 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-30 1:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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