Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 9:42 AM
> From: "Robert Pluim" <rpluim@gmail.com>
> To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 
> >> > > Nothing, except that people have been conditioned to expect that
> >> > > changes in options get saved automatically,
> >> > I assume you mean _some_ people.
> >> 
> >> Would each you please take a deep breath, and respond
> >> more kindly from now on?
> >
> > Would you please take a deep breath?  I don't think
> > there was anything unkind in either what Robert said
> > or in my reply to him.
> >
> 
> I agree
> 
> > Did you actually read what each of us said?  The point
> > of my emphasis on "some" was elaborated in the rest of
> > what I said, the point of which was that we can easily
> > accommodate _both_ expectations of saving automatically
> > and saving only on demand.
> >
> 
> True, although adding an option that says 'save all changes
> automatically' will help those who already know how to make
> configuration changes permanent. I was aiming more for the subset of
> people who donʼt know that yet.
> 
> > I don't even see any disagreement in what we were each
> > saying.  Some people _are_ used to automatic saving,
> > and we can accommodate that while also giving others
> > what they expect (which is what we have now).
> 
> The only disagreement is whether such an option should be enabled by
> default for changes made via the menus, I think.

That depends on whether we would people to experiment without messing
up their setup.   For those who experiment with many problems. they
run the risk of forgetting how to revert to their previous configuration.
Perhaps writing the details in a file, and using that if they want to
revert back?
 
> Robert
> 
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