Re: Key binding popup interface

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Kaushal Modi <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 3:20 PM Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  Hydra definitely sounds nice, but unless I'm misunderstanding how it
>  works, it can't be a replacement for either Org's export interface, or
>  Magit's popups. Both of those can set various state variables before
>  choosing an actual action -- Hydra can't do that, can it?

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> But this email wasn't to propose replace the matured popups like magit and 
> org export with hydra. The proposal is to integrate hydra into emacs, so that 
> many packages that self-implement these popups can do the same using hydra
> more easily. Dired, ibuffer can make use of hydra and make all the bindings 
> more discoverable and memorable. In future, may be hydra can be use for the 
> org template insertion piece.

Okay, interesting. I agree that "discoverable keymaps" and "action
dispatchers" (whatever Org and Magit do) aren't quite the same thing,
and it would be nice to have both. I guess in the meantime, though,
we're still going to have to use something else for the Org structure
thing.