Re: more on anything.el inclusion

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

rubikitch@ruby-lang.org writes:

> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Subject: Re: more on anything.el inclusion
> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:18:03 -0500
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm the developer of anything.el.
>
>> TV> On the user side, if you use anything-config.el, there is already build
>> TV> in sources ready for use, so you can use provided functions like any
>> TV> other emacs one (e.g M-x anything-xfonts).
>> 
>> OK.  Thanks for explaining.  So from the user's viewpoint, it should be
>> enough to autoload all the front-end anything-* functions (from
>> anything.el ideally, so users don't have to know about
>> anything-config.el as you had it in your autoload example).  Can you
>> make the necessary changes?  Or will that require major work?
>
> We'll add autoload cookies to them.
>
>> Is there a list of the standard front-end functions (a subset of the
>> autoloads below) that should always be exposed (through keyboard
>> mappings, possibly in a menu) to Emacs users?  The xfonts and file
>> selection ones should be in that list for sure.
>
> The preconfigured anything commands are too many to include into menus
> and some commands overlap other commands.
> For example, M-x anything-for-files handles buffers (M-x anything-buffers+),
> recentf (M-x anything-recentf), bookmarks (M-x anything-bookmarks) and locate (M-x anything-locate).
> We offer single source (anything-c-source-*) and multiple sources commands so that
> users can select preferred commands.
>
> Instead of binding all anything commands to menu and keymap,
> I created a navigator command for anything-* commands.
> M-x anything-execute-anything-command lists all anything commands in anything-config.el.
> Users can search and select appropriate command.
> Then users can bind it to keys.
>
> I think small amount of commands should be bound to menu and keymap.

It is already done, with a anything-command-map and a menu
(anything-config.el).
The prefix command is for the moment "<f5> a" for all anything commands.
The list or commands in menu and/or in anything-command-map should be
discussed, the prefix "f5 a" also.

>
> Cheers,
> --
> rubikitch
>
>

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