Re: bad UI defaults

[Per Abrahamsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I gave two, one was to use :options which will give a checkbox [ ]
>     instead of an [INS] button.  The other is the one below.
>
> I just tried that, and what I got was an INS button plus one element
> which I could enable using [ ].  That element refers to None and None,
> and I cannot find any way to change them.  What is its purpose?

You have to enable the checkbox in order to edit the value.  Just like
customize-face.  You cannot edit the key (the on-cursor), only the
value (the off-cursor).

The idea is that all the possible (or at least all the common)
on-cursors should be listed as options.  To modify one, the user would
check the checkbox, and set the value.

I only provided a single key as an example.

> For most alists, the order does not matter.  So imagine that
> there is a dummy element at the front.  The dummy element
> has slots to fill in a car and a cdr to make it a real element.
> If you fill them in, a new dummy element appears automatically.

Nice concept, but both designing and implementing this is more work
than I'm willing to offer.