Re: [Texmacs-dev] My patch - option groups

[Victor Porton]

Joris,

You have not said explicitly:

Will you accept or reject my patch adding option groups?

I've already said many arguments for accepting this patch and hope you have 
heard me.

29.11.2010, 19:07, "Joris van der Hoeven" <address@hidden>:
> Dear Victor,
>
> Thanks for your first try to improve the preferences.
> In fact, we rather planned to develop a preferences dialogue,
> with tabs for the different option groups (plus explanations).
> On the other hand, one global preferences file should be fine for the moment;
> I do not think that we need the far-going kind of granularity that you 
> propose.
> That said: being able to save the preferences to some user-specified file
> would probably be nice.
>
> Best, --Joris
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 04:58:55PM +0300, Victor Porton wrote:
>
>>  http://savannah.gnu.org is currently down. So I submit my patch to the list.
>>
>>  http://freesoft.portonvictor.org/patches/texmacs-optgroups.diff
>>
>>  This patch addes what I call "option groups". An option group consists of a 
>> subset of TeXmacs preferences (for example, all LaTeX copnversion options). 
>> It allows quickly retrieve a set of options for a particular mode of 
>> operation. For example, we need different option groups for saving LaTeX to 
>> send it to a math journal and for copying it to clipboard in order to insert 
>> in a blog. So my patch allows to quickly switch between modes.
>>
>>  As for now, there exists one option group "to-latex". More option groups 
>> can be added easily.
>>
>>  My implementation of option group menus works, but I'm sure I've done it 
>> wrong (despite it works for now). Who knows how to program it in the right 
>> way, let he notify me for me to see how it is done correctly.

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