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 22:24:54 +0100 Message-ID: <77fec846-26f6-e8e2-6215-af1c91f0cd7a@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="26398"; 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 22:42:47 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 1lCUat-0006ke-6h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:42:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57488 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCUas-0004AV-6o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:42:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47936) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCUJl-00014j-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:59373) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCUJg-0007JF-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 245AA2400FF for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:24:56 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1613597096; bh=JBJEa/bXUtOpgfRptB5cNrypxtegkz3ItzavpPVx15k=; h=Subject:To:Cc:From:Date:From; b=jhmfZ/GI50AOOlo25gw/ZerWbi7fCydkQrun5e/v3x2sSmt4BKa4B5XJ681tSlLBR /Bpr5/9F9H5V7W7LnXNLcUVg9QZU+xMf3dFWxroPzGNdVhsFhVpTVosWGd3gjPzmzk hwysTWqsxLCmISIaNhN1R+EKz6dPd6yLYaMk3eiPcfZU+vMAg0efuiOoBlvXQx4/DN fNG95cauFAm2JwO8iLGNohyor7jy2WBiR5MJVhfXzXbPZpEcTnIaO5JyKQcWeNuAez vqT8UOp4C1dQoTvpzyYZTDgnCzDyCsaqqrbtkf6Q5lYuwQZ0mDj1QqAKp1AySjThge TJ/ocAixunE/g== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4DgrTM25Sbz9rxc; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:24:55 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87zh02zarm.fsf@gnus.org> Content-Language: en-US Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.66; envelope-from=clemera@posteo.net; helo=mout02.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_H3=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:265090 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. There could also be a delay so if you know the keys you could skip the popup display. But more important to me would be the concept itself: The author of a command can defined keys which adjust the behavior and callers can call these commands with a prefix and than are queried for the option key.