From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: command to customize the thing at point? Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:32:14 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <871wxto7m2.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140834695 25144 80.91.229.2 (25 Feb 2006 02:31:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:31:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 25 03:31:31 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 1FCpDV-0006td-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:31:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FCpDW-0000id-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:31:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FCUm6-00043U-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:41:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FCUHi-0003Dd-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:10:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FCSYJ-0003tW-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:19:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FCSYK-00074u-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-37-90-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.37.90]) by Relayhost1.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98AE81C79; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:19:21 +0200 (EET) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:23:23 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee 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:50922 Archived-At: > > 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/