Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Ergus]

On September 12, 2020 11:25:22 AM GMT+02:00, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:03:33 +0200
>> CC:
>casouri@gmail.com,ams@gnu.org,monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,ghe@sdf.org,tecosaur@gmail.com
>> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
>> 
>> >> 4) Right click: (Probably it is the most lacking functionality and
>> >> surprising for any user not using the terminal.) Right click is
>> >expected
>> >> to bring a panel with the most common operations. It is useful,
>fast
>> >> and somehow standard since 1995 while removing most of the needs
>of
>> >the
>> >> toolbar which takes precious vertical space.
>> >
>> >We have this on C-mouse-2 and C-mouse-3. Putting those on mouse-2
>and
>> 
>> The menu we have in C-mouse-3 does not show the most basic options
>like copy, paste, and so on to
>> access them fast.
>
>Why should it?  We show the menu for the current major mode, which is
>IMO more useful than basic editing.
>
>It's a pity too many newbies don't see the menu bar and the tool bar,
>because all this was arranged to have all the important features be
>readily available through the different UI elements.  With the menu
>and the tool bar removed, we don't have enough UI elements to satisfy
>all the important needs.  

Right click panel is closer and faster to copy paste and so on. As well as 
expected.

>Which is one more reason to encourage
>newbies to start with the vanilla Emacs, not with the hyper-loaded
>"distros".
>
Not exactly because some of these "distros" already add their own right click 
panel.

(While I agree that most of them end hyper-loaded, but not because of this 
specific detail)

>> >> 5) sidebar: most code editors have a button somewhere in the
>> >interface
>> >> to show/hide the sidebar to explore and open files/access symbols
>or
>> >see
>> >> open files.
>> >
>> >We have it in Options->Hide/Show.
>> 
>> Yes but the idea behind is to make it very accessible to toggle it on
>demand more frequently. Maybe we can
>> add a bottom for that [>>] in the beginning of the modeline to give a
>toggle effect?
>
>If people agree that Speedbar is so important these days, the mode
>line is not a good place for the toggle.  But I'm not sure people
>agree.  For example, isn't Speedbar important mostly in PL major
>modes? what would you do with it in, say, Text mode?  So maybe make it
>appear automatically in such modes?

The sidebars around usually are more like neotree (a file browser) + 
imenu-sidebar (program browser if it is a program) + projectile sidebars (a 
list of this project's opened files) so there will be at least one of them 
always useful (neotree).

If you give a look to the simple geany editor you will see the most basic 
implementation of this "ide like" feature.
 

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