Re: [External] : Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "bugs@gnu.support" <bugs@gnu.support>, "ams@gnu.org" <ams@gnu.org>,
>         "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>         "gregory@heytings.org"
>       <gregory@heytings.org>,
>         "matt@rfc20.org" <matt@rfc20.org>, "larsi@gnus.org"
>       <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:28:41 +0000
> 
> E.g., I see this if I type just `save' to the
> prompt from `lacarte-execute-menu-command':
> 
> Buffers > Frames > SAVE                                                       
>                     
> Buffers > SAVE  %                                                             
>                     
> Do Re Mi > Save Frame Configuration          (C-x t .)                        
>                              
> File > Bookmarks > Here (This File/Buffer) >
>   Save Bookmarks Here To Bookmark File...    (C-x x C-s)            
> File > Bookmarks > Save Bookmarks As...      (C-x x w)                        
>                          
> File > Bookmarks > Save Bookmarks            (C-x x s)                        
>                                
> File > Open Recent > Save list now                                            
>                     
> File > Save As...                            (C-x C-w)                        
>                                                
> Icicles > + Remove Saved Candidate Set...                                     
>                     
> Icicles > Add/Update Saved Candidate Set...                                   
>                     
> Icicles > Save String to Variable...                                          
>                     
> Options > Customize Emacs > Saved Options                                     
>                     
> Options > Icicles > Toggle > Highlighting Saved Candidates                    
>                     
> Options > Save Frame Configs (DoReMi)                                         
>                     
> Options > Save Options                                                        
>                     
> Options > Save Place in Files between Sessions                                
>                     
> Tools > Spell Checking > Save Dictionary
> 
> (That's with substring completion.  And some of
> those menus are from my code.)

How is this different from "M-x save- TAB"?

> That's a pretty darn quick way to search the entire
> menu-bar forest, to see all menu items whose paths
> contain the word "save".

The goal was not to search the menus, the goal was to discover
commands.  Menus were suggested as a means towards that end.  Let's
not confuse the two.