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Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:05:30 +0200

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:03:01 +0100
> 
> I don't want to see a zillion of irrelevant commands when I'm fishing
> for interesting things on a given context.
> 
> This is about leaving out commands which only make sense when certain
> minor or major mode is active. I can't see how this would hamper
> learning by exploration.

Why filter them out? why not display them, but in the order that best
matches the user's intent, as Emacs perceives it?  That way, if the
guess is mostly right, the pertinent information is easy to find, but
if the guess is wrong, the information is still there, albeit a bit
further.



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