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Re: Fringe in Show/Hide menu?
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: Fringe in Show/Hide menu? |
Date: |
02 Apr 2002 23:52:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> There is one problem - I do not see an easy way of saving this to .emacs
> via customize. Do you have an idea?
>
> You need to first define a customizable variable to control the
> feature. Look at the defcustom for menu-bar-mode to see how that can
> be done. Then the menu commands can work by calling a function that
> sets that variable and calling customize-mark-as-set.
>
> However, I think it is a very bad idea to nest the menus so deeply.
> It is inconvenient to go down thru so many menus.
>
> Instead of having a submenu of fringe hiding commands, it is better
> to have one command that cycles thru all 4 possibilities.
I disagree. If the menus are sensible named and structured, I'd
prefer to go through an extra level of menus _once_, rather than
having to go through the whole menu selection _several_ times to cycle
through the unwanted choices (and how do I know what the alternatives
are without doing so?).
>
> I think menu-bar-showhide-scroll-bar-menu is also inconvenient and
> should be replaced with a single command to cycle thru all 3
> possibilities.
IMO, the current interface is much more user friendly than your
proposal.
And it is still simpler than:
Help -> Describe -> Describe Language Environment -> European -> latin-1
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk