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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?



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