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

[tomas]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:05:30PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

Makes sense to me.

Thanks
 - t

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