From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A silly little request... Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:21:11 +0100 Message-ID: <85d5iivgp4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85slrfxno7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138056393 9437 80.91.229.2 (23 Jan 2006 22:46:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 23 23:46:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1AQ8-0002rg-1a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:44:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1ASm-000191-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:47:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1AQ6-00007f-Cy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:44:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1AQ5-00007D-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:44:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1AQ5-000076-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:44:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F1AUt-0006n6-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:49:15 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F1AMx-0000Bm-Ph; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:41:15 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 2820B1C460BC; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:21:11 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Piet van Oostrum In-Reply-To: (Piet van Oostrum's message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:55:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49462 Archived-At: Piet van Oostrum writes: >>>>>> David Kastrup (DK) wrote: > >>DK> Could we have another autoloaded command from gud.el except just >>DK> gud-tooltip-mode? Any old command? > >>DK> The reason is that I frequently mistype >>DK> M-x gnu RET >>DK> (for starting gnus) and just type >>DK> M-x gu RET >>DK> which then calls gud-tooltip-mode with the current set of autoloads. >>DK> I don't even know what it does. If "gu" happened to have more than >>DK> one completion, I would not inadvertantly call gud-tooltip-mode time >>DK> and again. > >>DK> I realize that "preventing user stupidity" is not a pressing technical >>DK> concern, but nevertheless I'd be glad if somebody came up with a good >>DK> candidate command from gud.el that would be suitable for autoloading >>DK> as well. > > You could define a dummy command starting with "gu" in your .emacs. Of course I could. I just think it a bad idea to fix stuff privately that feels like it would be an annoyance to a number of other people. And I think vast clunky .emacs files are the work of the devil. They proliferate and get passed on between people who don't know what they are doing. .emacs should really only mirror personal taste, not common sense. Common sense should be catered for by Emacs, not .emacs. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum