From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Clemens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A different way to interactively pass options to commands Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:58:15 +0100 Message-ID: <0a137db8-688c-7497-9878-bd855b4cb9b5@posteo.net> References: <878s7m1mo3.fsf@gnus.org> <87zh02zarm.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10234"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 17 22:38:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lCUX7-0002Yu-Sb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:38:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49280 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCUX6-0000Ry-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCTu0-0002ek-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:58:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:38874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCTtr-0008U4-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2229F160060 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:58:15 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1613595496; bh=5VyRZyAvN6K33I9EE43Fk9UXaUW64py35cIHZCetXC8=; h=Subject:To:Cc:From:Date:From; b=goH+doq/rqNdIVyXPagrVgP1QjqMPPmFlltVHmbaJFrUVFojoU3nQ9BOxpTZ++dC4 j1Px5qx64hn0rTryQiAyKDim6m0E/XlAAs8jM2XWm9BaZF3WvXjC/lXZCqosMYzhd6 dqA19/KD1mBFzwgIU1qsinYj56wxUM2l715vLu+hz5UgFk3iNoPLpQ108A9IfstqYL yBTlDEBIKVZXxGqYw/LE+KEHIeCooT4tu2lq7yd4L6XJhCvEj33ZmFygUrs3V43aq0 0Pi1IfjyORvriy0ohn0GHxiGHK9d0U+YckMvX83obKzAEo5hAyaElY37tmac9OrgdK Dy1xhsOFEK5Wg== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4Dgqtb3hlKz6tm9; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:58:15 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87zh02zarm.fsf@gnus.org> Content-Language: en-US Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.65; envelope-from=clemera@posteo.net; helo=mout01.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265088 Archived-At: > Thanks. So it's like a ... mega-popup key menu thing. It does seem > quite nice -- it makes command discovery very "in your face": You can't > help but know what your options are. > > But it's a quite radical departure from other commands in Emacs. You would actively requesting the display with the prefix. Options could also be displayed in the minibuffer but that room is filled up quickly.