Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > > "Hide/Show" is something more appropriate for things like outline > mode, I'd say. "Appearance" would be a reasonably good name, and the > cursor type belongs in there. > > A problem is that the Show/Hide menu currently contains 8 options all > of which _really_ Show/Hide something where "Hide" has to be taken in > the sense most other applications use that word, even though it is > strictly speaking not 100% accurate. All of them are the following form: > > Tool-bar > > which does not make any sense without the Show/Hide in front of it.
A check-marked "Tool-bar" for an appearing toolbar in an "Appearance" menu does not sound too absurd to me. Whereas a checkmarked "Tool-bar" in a "Show/Hide" menu means that the Tool-bar is shown or hidden. Which makes decidedly less sense. Of course it is either of the two. Call it nitpicking, but I don't see how the descriptive quality would suffer under that change. > I still do not understand why blink-cursor-mode is less important > than any of the twelve options that are currently at top level, some > of which seem to _really_ be technical details for advanced users, > who probably do not use the menu bar anyway. For instance, "Use > Directory Name in Buffer Names", which, like many of the other > twelve, is downright confusing, because it seems to automatically > apply to all file visiting buffers. If the current menus are confusing, the solution is not to add more confusing settings, but to fix the old ones. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
