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

[Victor Porton]

Dear Joris,

29.11.10, 19:07, "Joris van der Hoeven" <address@hidden>:
>  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).

This my code should work equally well with a preferences dialogue as it works 
with preferences menu.

>  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.

I agree that "being able to save the preferences to some user-specified file 
would probably be nice."

But my code does a different thing, it saves a subset of preferences.

Joris, do you mean that you do not want to accept my patch?!

If so, I will need to maintain my own version of TeXmacs, because I need this 
feature for my own use.

I believe that ability to save all LaTeX export preferences and restore them 
with one click is a very useful feature.

If you decline, please arguably argument why you don't accept it.

In any case, I myself will work with TeXmacs only with my patch. It would be 
inconvenient to do this manually. I prefer if the patch would be included into 
the official version and available in Debian GNU/Linux.

>  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.
>  > 
>  > Joris van der Hoeven:
>  > <<<
>  > The dynamic menus have been reimplemented so as to make them easier to 
> write,
>  > even though no documentation is available yet. 'tm-menu (my-menu)' is 
> equivalent
>  > to 'menu-bind my-menu' for non-dynamic menus, but, contrary to normal 
> menus,
>  > dynamic menus defined using tm-menu can take parameters and there are 
> several
>  > primitives for generating the entries dynamically from Scheme.
>  > Just grep the Scheme code for tm-menu in order to look at the existing 
> examples...
>  > >>>
>  > 
>  > I don't know how to use both tm-menu and menu-bind. I did it with simple 
> tm-define (in a wrong but working way). Corrections are appreciated.
>  > 
>  > P.S. Can I get r/w SVN access?
>  > 
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>  > Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
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