Nick Roberts wrote:
Nick Roberts writes:
>
> If you toggle some buffer-local variables from the menu bar e.g
> case-fold-search, indicate-empty-lines then you change the default values and
> not the local ones. This is because they use menu-bar-make-toggle and means
> that if you are in a buffer where the local value has been set e.g Info, you
> see no difference.
>
> It is a departure from behaviour in Emacs 21 and other options e.g
> truncate-lines are changed locally on the menu bar.
Thinking further, the buffer local variables like truncate-lines should be
toggled from the mode-line, just as earlier I removed the global minor modes
(line-/column-number-mode) from the mode-line, leaving them just on the
menu bar (the converse).
Maybe the user wants to set case-fold-search for the session and the menu bar
is the right place for that, but he is likely to be confused (as I was) if
it is masked by a local value as in Info.
I think it is a very bad user interface to just be able to toggle this
variables from the mode-line with a mouse. Why not have a "Buffer Local
Options" entry in the Buffer menu in the menu bar instead? (Or
additionally perhaps.)
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