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24.3; Inconsistency in Tools menu

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15230: closed (24.3; Inconsistency in Tools menu)
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:25:01 +0000

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From: "neutrico.pl Marcin Antczak" <marcin.antczak <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; Inconsistency in Tools menu
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:08:38 +0200

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There is "Games" position in "Tools" menu.
I'm not sure if it should belong to this menu.

It should be removed or accessible as something optional.


Another problem is that in "Tools" menu there are toggle type buttons such as:

- Project Support (EDE)
- Source Code Parsers (Semantic)

These options are not "tools". They do nothing functional. They are just turning some features on and off but have no immediate functional meaning.

Another problem is that we have more similar options to add ther and this could turn into an extensible and almost
unlimited list of external features available to turn on and off.

We could add positions such as:

- Code Browser
- Code Snippets
- Syntax Checking

etc.

Then we will get a long and hard to navigate list of toggle buttons which
belong to "Options" menu rather than to "Tools".

Another solution is to move this list to submenu.
For example:

"Tools" -> "Features >> "



In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
 of 2013-08-22 on menkib, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11303000
System Description:	Ubuntu 13.04

Configured using:
 `configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu'
 '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
 '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
 '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes'
 '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector
 --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall'
 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro'
 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: pl_PL.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 15230-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 "neutrico.pl Marcin Antczak" <marcin.antczak <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#15230: 24.3; Inconsistency in Tools menu
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:24:15 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Having read the above 6 year old feature request, I don't see anything
> actionable here.  Stefan M seems to have already answered all relevant
> points, and there have been no further comments.
>
> I'll give it a couple of weeks, so anyone interested will have a last
> chance to chime in, and then I'm closing this bug.

No further comments within 5 weeks, so I'm closing this bug now.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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