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Expose hidden "Save for Future Sessions" Customizations button

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#33109: closed (Re: bug#33109: Expose hidden "Save for Future
 Sessions" Customizations button)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:23:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#33109: Expose hidden "Save for Future Sessions" Customizations button

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33109-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33109: Expose hidden "Save for Future Sessions"
 Customizations button
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 23:22:37 +0800

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
EZ> Why is this detail important?  Your original report was that it
EZ> doesn't save at all ("will be lost upon exit").  Do we now agree that
EZ> the customization _is_ saved when you press that button?  And that
EZ> there's no bug here?

Nothing got saved for me

>> Anyway, then why is the difference between the
>> "Apply and Save" and "Save for Future Sessions" button?

EZ> What "Save for Future Sessions" button?  I only see  "Save for Future
EZ> Sessions" in the "State" menu, I don't see a button with that label.

Ah, so there are two different "states" for saving...

OK I'll close this bug. Customization has always been a disaster for me.
Forget it.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Expose hidden "Save for Future Sessions" Customizations button
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 04:59:23 +0800

In the Customize Face buffer most users will think the "Apply and Save"
button will save their changes to a file, only to unknowingly lose them
upon exit.

Only if they read (info "(emacs) Saving Customizations") will they learn
of the hidden "Save for Future Sessions" button.

I propose the latter button be placed on the interface right beside the
former button, visible from the start.

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