From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 19:26:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83zhaqqp5n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <87v9ljo5d0.fsf@bernoul.li> <87ftcnxu5m.fsf@bernoul.li> <83y2qezlpd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv12zjx1.fsf@gnu.org> <20200429101755.GF24737@tuxteam.de> <838sicw4do.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhaqu89z.fsf@gnu.org> <83sggiu2p9.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1w2s9wi.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfmas6cu.fsf@gnu.org> <837dxus4ot.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="126054"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 18:27:05 2020 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 1jUuyn-000Wgu-U1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 18:27:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32774 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuyn-0000wU-05 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 12:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuyL-0000WN-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 12:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuyK-0002Bt-GU; Sat, 02 May 2020 12:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4220 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUuy5-0003Kg-7z; Sat, 02 May 2020 12:26:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sat, 2 May 2020 18:12:37 +0200) 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:248489 Archived-At: > From: Philippe Vaucher > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 18:12:37 +0200 > Cc: Stefan Monnier , tomas@tuxteam.de, > Richard Stallman , Emacs developers > > You are missing the fact that it's impossible to make all functions > related to regexps begin with "regexp-", because some of them are also > related to lists or strings or buffers or email or projects. Or are > you suggesting to have dozens of different aliases for each function, > one each for every class to which it could possibly belong? > > How big is this "some of them" you are talking about? Are they really about regexp, or another topic? "C-u C-h a regexp RET" and see for yourself. > And are you implying that because we cannot do all of them, we should do any of them? No, I'm not implying that. > > The above are _commands_ not functions. The equivalent would be > > "C-h a regexp search RET", which does do what you want, I think. > > > > This again gives me a giant list where a majority of what is listed is not what I'd like. > > "Giant"? I see 11 hits (in "emacs -Q"). > > In "Emacs -Q" you are correct. Without "-Q" the list is here https://www.ideone.com/35kbNi. On that list only > line 116-127 are relevant to what I search. You didn't type "C-h a", because that only shows commands.