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: Tumme menu in Dired, what to do about it? Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:59:43 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87mzgv3yb4.fsf@jurta.org> References: <7dbe73ed0602121642h79944040vb252a904c7af93a5@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139855686 29681 80.91.229.2 (13 Feb 2006 18:34:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 13 19:34:44 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 1F8iWW-0007kj-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:34:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8iWV-0008Ko-P0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:34:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F8iWB-0008HB-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:33:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F8iW9-0008BA-WB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8iW9-0008Ac-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:33:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F8iae-00040n-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-43-67-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.43.67]) by Relayhost1.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785394E19; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:33:44 +0200 (EET) Original-To: Mathias Dahl In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0602121642h79944040vb252a904c7af93a5@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:42:25 +0100") 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:50476 Archived-At: > So, what can be done with this? I don't think anyone would like that > fat Tumme menu each time they enter dired. Would a sub menu to Dired > work? Too much or OK? If OK, should it be on always (probably)? > > Any opinions on this subject? Currently there are too many redundant keybindings in tumme. They all do almost the same thing with small nuances. A large number of very similar keybindings is confusing. It would be good to have one keybinding that does the most expected thing and changes its behavior depending on context and on a prefix key. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/