From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: command to customize the thing at point?
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:32:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wxto7m2.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICEEPGDCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:23:23 -0800")
> > How about having a single command that would call customize-face,
> > customize-option, or customize-group, as appropriate, on the
> > name at point or under the mouse pointer?
`customize-thing-at-point'?
> In only relatively few cases is the object in question ambiguous; in those
> cases, the command would ask you which is the intended target. It could
> either ask you explicitly (y/n) or just let you cycle through the possible
> values ("foo (function)", "foo (option)", "foo (face)").
`M-x customize-thing-at-point RET M-n M-n M-n RET'?
> The same idea might be used for `describe-variable', `describe-function',
> etc. when it picks up the default value - much of the time the name is
> unambiguous.
`M-x describe-thing-at-point RET M-n M-n M-n RET'?
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-21 21:57 command to customize the thing at point? Drew Adams
2006-02-22 10:11 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-02-22 15:23 ` Drew Adams
2006-02-24 0:32 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2006-02-25 7:57 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-02-25 16:28 ` Drew Adams
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