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Re: Current mode command discovery


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: Current mode command discovery
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:32:09 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Imagine user confusion and frustration when a command that is known to
> Help cannot be invoked!

Why would the user wish to invoke a command that makes no sense on the
context he is working on? On the best case, the command will just throw
an error. At worse, it will mess up things.

> My suggestion to change the sorting order instead of actually
> filtering out candidates would at least avoid that danger.

The danger you are talking about is saving the user from having to
search among thousands of irrelevant commands and/or firing himself on
the foot. After all, we also hide the menus of modes when they are not
active on the current buffer.




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