From: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 48134@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual
Date: Sat, 01 May 2021 10:59:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg36rfrw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsz73t9z.8.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Sat, 01 May 2021 13:41:28 +0800")
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> Do (info "(emacs) Colors")
> Now put the cursor on top of
> ‘M-x list-colors-display’
> and hope emacs realizes it... but it doesn't so we end up typing
> <snip>
> ah, finally we can hit RET.
>
> One would think some default would show up based on what our cursor was
> on or something.
Note that M-n does the sort of "mind-reading" you're looking for,
IIUC:
- put cursor on top of ‘M-x list-colors-display’
- M-x M-n
Would that be an acceptable answer for you? If not, maybe there are
some completion UIs that are more eager and will default to whatever M-n
suggests; none comes to mind at the moment, but I'd be surprised if none
existed.
All in all though, maybe "buttonizing" ‘M-x foo’ commands in Info
manuals would make sense: one could then trigger them with RET or
mouse-1, and reach them with TAB; no idea how hard it would be to
implement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-01 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-01 5:41 bug#48134: When sitting on top of a M-x item in the manual 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-05-01 8:59 ` Kévin Le Gouguec [this message]
2021-05-01 12:15 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-05-02 7:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-02 14:09 ` Howard Melman
2021-05-02 16:09 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-05-03 9:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-01 14:01 ` bug#48134: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-01 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-01 16:28 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-01 20:09 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-01 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-02 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-03 0:35 ` Drew Adams
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