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

[jao]

On Fri, Feb 12 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> There seems to be an assumption here that the defining info to hiding
> a command (or not) is the current major mode.

hmm, not on my side at least.  but my expectation was that it'll happen
often enough, and i was thinking of ways of easing the transition for
those packages in which it happens.

> While it's an important case, I think it'd be a mistake to design
> a feature that can only use such tests.

fwiw, i wasn't proposing such a thing.  the "all these interactives are
for this major mode" flag/mechanism would be strictly opt-in.

> There are many other useful conditions that one might like to test,
> such as the activation of the region, the existence of some other
> buffer, etc...

indeed.