From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CUA mode cursor color Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:03:29 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200205131700.g4DH0DB13257@aztec.santafe.edu> <200205131710.g4DHA1t07920@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200205131815.g4DIFdA08238@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200205141319.g4EDJ4Z18790@rum.cs.yale.edu> <873cwusvf4.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021388783 29194 127.0.0.1 (14 May 2002 15:06:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stefan Monnier" , Sam Steingold , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 177dsd-0007al-00 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:06:23 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 177e3i-00086n-00 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:17:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177dsS-00017G-00; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177dpx-0000xf-00; Tue, 14 May 2002 11:03:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g4EF3Yb00914; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:03:34 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id RAA17779; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:03:29 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 4394E3B41E; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:03:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <873cwusvf4.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (Miles Bader's message of "14 May 2002 22:36:47 +0900") Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3922 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3922 Miles Bader writes: > "Stefan Monnier" writes: >> > It's bad for people (users) who use Custom. >> >> Huh? In what scenario? > > I presume he's talking about places where it lets you add to hooks, and > that something like turn-on-auto-fill is `straightforward' whereas > `(lambda ()...)' is `confusing'. There's probably something to that. That's what I meant. > On the other hand most people will probably (incorrectly) use > `auto-fill-mode' in such situations anyway... Quite possibly. > [personally I think your proposal to change the meaning of a > non-interactive `nil' argument to be `on' instead of `toggle' is > actually the best solution...] Not a bad idea. kai -- Silence is foo!