Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Fri, 4 May 2001, Michael Koziarski wrote:
|
| > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:15:27PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
|wrote:
| > > This message was added because somebody felt it was irritant to be
| > > unable to add double space without reason :) I do not know whether we
| > > are supposed to add a configure option for each and every LyX feature,
| > > though.
| > >
| > > JMarc
| >
| > This is my pet hate as well. After a few years of using MS word and
| > typing e-mails in emacs I've grown used to just tapping the space bar
| > twice to begin a sentence. I'd love to see it in the preferences
| > dialog.
|
| I think we should sit back a moment and ask ourselves if there really is
| any point in showing this message at all. I find it a distraction and
| while it'd be easy to add YAP (Yet Another Preference) it seems to me this
| should be a message like the splash document -- shown the first time and
| never seen again. At least for any given session.
|
| If we just keep saying:
| "Such-and-such is annoying. Let's add a preference to disable it."
|
| then maybe such-and-such shouldn't exist at all or is at least not well
| thought out. Otherwise we get preference bloat and you'll either end up
| with so many options people just won't look at it because it's become too
| complex or there will be so many options people on this list won't be able
| to remember what can't and can't be configured.
Why not output the message only once per session?
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Lgb
