Re: RE: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

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Christopher Dimech
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> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 6:48 PM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, "Robert Pluim" <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: RE: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
> > > 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?
>
> Yes, that was a point I made.
>
> There are good arguments to be made both for and
> against auto-saving of option changes.  My message
> of a few minutes ago elaborates on this.
>
> Providing for the possibility (choice) of auto-saving
> could be a good thing.  Providing flexibility in such
> a user choice would be even better.

Then we provide the flexibility.

> IOW, even just a choice always/never save all options
> could be a step forward, but it's not the best possible
> solution.  Options are not all the same, and users
> don't all use the same option the same way.
>
>