Re: more on anything.el inclusion

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:

> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:36:31 +0200 Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> wrote: 
>>
>> TV> We did lot of work on anything since this time, anyone can see, try
>> TV> and use anything on http://repo.or.cz/w/anything-config.git If you
>> TV> like it, then we could include in emacs.
>>
>> Strangely, I can't check it out over HTTP:
>>
>> % git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/anything-config.git
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tzz/source/anything-config/.git/
>> warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
>>
>> (and nice warning, the checkout fails completely!)
>
>
>> but it works with the git://repo.or.cz/anything-config.git URL.
>
> Yes sorry, clone with:
> git clone git://repo.or.cz/anything-config.git
>
>> I think the revision history should be cut out of anything.el.
>>
>> It's pretty hard for a novice to get started customizing the sources.
>> There is almost no Customize support AFAICT for anything-sources.  The
>> existing anything.el docs assume good knowledge of Emacs Lisp.  I don't
>> know if that is a problem, but a real manual would be very helpful for
>> beginners.
>
> anything-sources is deprecated and should be used with care with only
> few sources, the one provided by default with anything.el are enough.
>
> So the use of M-x anything is deprecated, you should use now commands
> provided in anything-config.el.
>
> Setting up a function for commands not provided is simple as:
>
> (defun anything-buffers-only ()
>   (interactive)
>   (anything-other-buffer 'anything-c-source-buffers+ "*anything buffers*"))
>
> Actually installing anything is easy and work out of the box with only:
>
> (require 'anything-config)
> (require 'anything-match-plugin) ; facultatif

For packages included in emacs we try to avoid using require to
activate the package.  [I don't know anything about this particular
package, so...]


> Anything is now self documented both in mode-line and with C-h m or your
> usual help command, but yes a manual would be nice.

Can you please add some brief description of what it actually does?

;;;; anything.el --- open anything / QuickSilver-like candidate-selection 
framework

does not tell much...

>
>> What sources should be on by default for Emacs users of anything.el?
>
> Only the one that are already set in anything.el.
>
>
>> I'm sure there are a lot of style and behavior issues I'm missing.  I'm
>> so used to anything.el that I'm probably not a good test case of how it
>> looks to an Emacs user.
>>
>> Ted
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Thierry Volpiatto
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