From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Systematic implicit aliases for option variables Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:08:01 +0200 Message-ID: <9F2080B9-A7FE-4E7B-9920-8368A9D6DEBE@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22957"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android To: rms@gnu.org, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 09:10:24 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nOxaR-0005sl-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:10:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46238 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOxaQ-0006tQ-Cf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOxYF-0005tg-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=57270 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOxYE-0000iM-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:08:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From: Date; bh=RRa8kTP8UEtM/Hpi7llzPvmdbWRRfXTj03XqloW9XeY=; b=c+7NsJFVV1snUu/4pcbI goF8X7Ryd4BOaqu8uwOyu7FLIl4ES3jVs6Bafti3sw0h4yEtP+zWMVG1pNzClt/YoOl3lXt+kJIwR DNaWMNpbRO7ZyDUWcIfsdCPctqR7LYyp+oLy45OKN+hLqYSo+MYC1QpO4FsU6EaGwgpaWl/pf+rVH RPSHpxeyRHfZXSK96VY9dayrJYXh0zbuggYTl+wC5AgdHxUyVTeCBVmPcfJzyMCDlqXLaAg+OQkVV p8eY/C9BW1Kj4kYB57mxHk6GSa2llwRlkyj6hPO2nT2lr0jT8H/4L4kuRKtgbjLdL3gnaw2OX4C0U uz7KaBWISVj4Fg==; Original-Received: from [2a02:14f:1f8:8d8::314c:7e6e] (port=48194 helo=[IPv6:::1]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nOxYC-0001Hz-Km; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:08:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: Autocrypt: addr=eliz@gnu.org; keydata= mQENBF+pf4UBCAC6vjkWLSAsQpe8YIGKLQzNOJx/IjGtCdFF8uzmO5jmME+SD8ROuJN+t5KXVw58 uzu75EFD0vHTY9e+udJ2gkpuy0NnzkFcbumdLLo2ERKCoSctZZRhzKXI5z5cHxCqW0B2ygHRrRLt oNlGID7bAgcgSViT1ptGqTXO7zGVu4Airok7dNzcPtHgns8GlR5YAFX0TvE6oGd0l2VPghNeVJKJ OjrbfhoDxl3ucFpqbqMH8z9HTLDOFpz8UaYYUdJMi3xX6vwTZxI2sM2RRVLUpZyllAkSMI4lln1O OgazM/62DJUs/rKIHKBnF6h3/qsJUjUYXaAHbrXY26mWllAd536lABEBAAG0I0VsaSBaYXJldHNr aWkgKGVsaXopIDxlbGl6QGdudS5vcmc+iQE4BBMBAgAiBQJfqX+FAhsDBgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsE FgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRCRwSYvAeuNOYUQB/4/iIKKOG45ijNaRoTvmJJZMvj1S07WQxEm7c5SHEeE QbLOAxB9vESOV7sLueuN3oqEndtzyYt4x1WTSBmHFF7h5fcCMjBs41siOIp5Sj/xD0Bvaa0IKGCR SZ7PAo8Mq3wgajXpTpn9vxE2PmtzA8KdEE0K1+f9pVAfOpUIcCl44rIxLUW352XG0y7iz6c/O6LB 1deOKMiKFctKO7pBti1dJEm1ImewLH3H8uTbwspLOs3EB8xhsESxmTidnze68HX2jt+2EeMgCdki NU+LWbexQZPfIS7+ZmE06ll0v6+Jy7ZdTkCCRypKWTnW7pIFsq/p4kybV8O/kHSV6B4vvQBfuQEN BF X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286745 Archived-At: On March 1, 2022 6:24:49 AM GMT+02:00, Richard Stallman wro= te: >=20 > Does it make sense to define a command `customize-command' which takes > a command name as argument and shows you the options that are > pertinent to customizing that command? >=20 > If you give it `occur', it would recognize that that is an alias > for `list-matching-lines', and show you the options pertinent to > `list-matching-lines'=2E You wouldn't need to know that `occur' > is an alias=2E >=20 > I think the hard part of this would be adding a data base to find the > custom groups that are pertinent to any particular command=2E >=20 Sounds like a natural extension of customize-apropos, which we already hav= e?