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Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional
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Adrian Robert |
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Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:20:13 +0200 |
On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:39 AM, David Reitter wrote:
The `ns-set-resource' Elisp interface is better than none on the
Elisp side, but what happened to Emacs customization variables?
As said before on this list, introducing another way (beyond .emacs
and customization/custom-file) creates a new failure point for
people's configurations. This is bad in two respects: they won't
be able to reset Emacs to a vanilla state, or troubleshoot a faulty
configuration.
...
All of these things make it harder to support users. "emacs -q" is
helpful, but at the end of the day, people want to run "emacs".
Especially seasoned users will complain that they have to find and
delete ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.emacs.plist.
This is no longer true -- running -q or -Q now ignores the plist --
though not X resources, I believe. The one difference between the NS
defaults and X resources is that the defaults system is read/write,
whereas X resources are for some strange reason read-only by design.
After various discussion here, I now believe this difference is
fundamental, and that the NS defaults system should therefore be used
in Emacs only internally for parameters that are specific to NS and
not set by users. This includes reading existing system settings
like anti-aliasing threshold, as well as storing previous directories
and window locations for file open/save dialogs. Completely behind-
the-scenes stuff.
I would advocate transitioning all of the ns-xxx lisp variables that
are not stored in defaults to the customization system.
I am not sure if it is appropriate to do this under pretest,
however. It would be a user-visible change and potentially cause
unexpected side effects.
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, David Reitter, 2009/03/04
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional,
Adrian Robert <=
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, David Reitter, 2009/03/06
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/03/06
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, Adrian Robert, 2009/03/06
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/03/06
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, Adrian Robert, 2009/03/07
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/03/07
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, Adrian Robert, 2009/03/08
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2009/03/08
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, Miles Bader, 2009/03/08
- Re: NS: ns-expand-space / slider in Preferences dialog not functional, Adrian Robert, 2009/03/09