Re: [External] : Re: command mode-specificity [was: scratch/command 064f146 1/2: Change...]

[Yuan Fu]

> On Feb 16, 2021, at 5:15 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> 
> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 
>> I won't bother to try counting my other libraries.
>> My code might not be typical, of course.  But I
>> still am curious about the general case.  Can you
>> provide more than a sample of just 2 libraries?
> 
> 5x5.el: 21 commands, 6 non-mode-specific ones.
> 
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My understanding is that, because gnus, eww and 5x5 are self-contained 
“applications”, it makes sense that most of their commands only make sense in 
the corresponding major mode. Likewise for org-mode, python-mode, etc. General 
text editing commands and other utility commands would makes sense regardless 
of the major mode, for example, bookmark, help, debug-on-entry, load-theme, 
fill-paragraph.

So it all comes down to how many commands are from standalone applications and 
major modes and how many from generic utility packages.

Yuan