Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!)

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:10:41 +0200
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:56:06 +0200
>> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> >> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 05:53:25 +0200
>> >> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> >> >> Cc: Xah Lee <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The "Save options" is in my opinion confusing.
>> >> >
>> >> > I don't see how it can be.  Many other GUI programs have a similar
>> >> > feature, and I didn't find it confusing at all.
>> >>
>> >> They do? It does not at all seem common to me, but maybe I have just
>> >> missed it. I just looked in Firefox and OpenOffice.org and I can't see
>> >> anything similar.
>> >
>> > Try harder.
>>
>>
>> You got me. I simply must be missing it. Exactly where in the Firefox
>> menus is it??
>
> Hint: what are all those "Apply" buttons you click to make the
> selected options permanent?


They are very different. You do not find them in the menus. They are
more like our save/set buttons in customize buffers.

Most often I believe program does not make the distinction between
saved and set options as Emacs does. I looked for example at Firebug
in Firefox menu. There you just toggle options permanently by clicking
them in the menu.

However if Apply buttons was what you were thinking of then why not
have a customize-save-customized entry instead in the options menu?
This would be much better than the current "Save Options" in my
opinion.