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Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers
From: |
Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:47:28 +0000 (UTC) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> wrote,
If users who potentially would prefer Lisp names don't even know
that displaying Lisp names is an option, then that is a loss.
It is even worse when it is not an evident option. I just started a
plain vanilla Emacs using `emacs -Q' from an Emacs built on 28 Dec
2004.
In that instance of Emacs, I brought up the customization buffer for
`Escape Glyph' from by clicking on `escape-glyph' in *Faces*.
The *Faces* buffer does tell me the Lisp name.
However, the *Customize Face: Escape Glyph* buffer does not.
I could not find any way of showing it by clicking on either of the
two buttons that showed some possibility: `State' and `Value Menu'.
(As for the other buttons, I did not click on them because: I did not
want to see the parent groups, I did not want to hide the face, and it
looked to me that the generic commands, such as `Set for Current
Session' were not relevant.)
Perhaps I could do something different, but the action is not evident.
(The Info for (emacs)Easy Customization did not help either, not in a
quick look.)
Please, either stop trying to prettify names altogether or provide
both the prettified and proper name, as in
Escape Glyph face, escape-glyph: (sample) Hide Face
rather than
Escape Glyph face: (sample) Hide Face
Then those of us who would use customize for features we do not
understand, like faces, could actually use it.
Also, what is the equivalent command to `C-h v' (describe-variable)
for faces which are not variables? `C-h C-h' (help-for-help) does not
tell, at least, not obviously. (Please remember, all this is for
people who are not experts on the topic, so everything must be
obvious.)
Thank you.
--
Robert J. Chassell
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http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, (continued)
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Lennart Borgman, 2005/01/24
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/08
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Per Abrahamsen, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Per Abrahamsen, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers,
Robert J. Chassell <=
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, David Kastrup, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/03
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/04
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/01/05
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06
- Re: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/06