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Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:02:28 +0200 |
> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:55:29 +0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
> "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>,
> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>,
> Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> > Case in point: if a command isn't bound to a key it doesn't show up in
> > help, so there is this pressure to bind everything that could possibly
> > be useful to some person some day to some key. What if instead help
> > showed all the interactive commands provided by the mode? What if M-x
> > were smarter about highlighting mode specific commands?
> >
> > Perhaps exploring these kinds of ideas would be useful.
>
> The mechanism you’re describing is called a menu.
>
> Case in point: In almost every GUI program that follows the CUA
> guidelines, you can invoke the File | Open command by pressing Alt+F
> O.
The original suggestion was to make it easier to discover _unknown_
commands, whereas your menu analogy talks about invoking a _known_
command. I don't see how this analogy helps, what did I miss?
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, (continued)
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, tomas, 2021/02/11
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/11
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Jean Louis, 2021/02/12
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/11
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/02/12
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/12
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/02/12
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Yuri Khan, 2021/02/10
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Matt Armstrong, 2021/02/11
- RE: [External] : Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Drew Adams, 2021/02/11
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Matt Armstrong, 2021/02/11
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Yuri Khan, 2021/02/11
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/11
- RE: [External] : Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Drew Adams, 2021/02/11
- Re: [External] : Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/11
- RE: [External] : Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Drew Adams, 2021/02/11
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Yuri Khan, 2021/02/11
- RE: [External] : Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Drew Adams, 2021/02/11
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/11
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Yuri Khan, 2021/02/11