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Re: Current mode command discovery
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Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: |
Re: Current mode command discovery |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:32:09 +0100 |
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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.
- Re: Current mode command discovery, (continued)
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/18
- Re: Current mode command discovery,
Óscar Fuentes <=
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, tomas, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/19
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/19
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/19