Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info

[Stefan Monnier]

> >From my previous message:
> 
>    But note that `fill-column' can be given mode-local values
>    using mode hooks, so there would not seem to be any particular need
>    for hyper-specialized variables like `info-fill-column'.
> 
> Except maybe for Custom's sake.  But still, I believe that once one
> starts with this, the flood gates would be open for countless similar
> special-file-fill-column variables, and the user who really wants this
> can use mode hooks, even though this might be less convenient than
> using Custom.

It would be much more worthwhile to teach custom how to do such things
so that users will be able to set all variables per-mode via custom.


        Stefan