From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Weiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: M-x shell question Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:21:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rswgnu@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113d66fcff6b4f053a6c9595 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471613010 2149 195.159.176.226 (19 Aug 2016 13:23:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:23:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 19 15:23:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bajlf-0000Jc-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:23:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bajlc-0007pU-9t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58521) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bajkW-0007bJ-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bajkS-0003uZ-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:22:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bajkS-0003uV-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:22:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-f47.google.com ([209.85.218.47]:32771) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bajkR-0008W4-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-f47.google.com with SMTP id c15so63042307oig.0 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:22:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoouufNIcZ9+fc4s65FzTpoQC19NzK7ktaAnyqtZOPWPEdxKwfEo6gmcPgcSfKh0go0LYqiHwt3tVxF1eS4g== X-Received: by 10.202.83.214 with SMTP id h205mr4845054oib.25.1471612930973; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.202.170.137 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:21:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206668 Archived-At: --001a113d66fcff6b4f053a6c9595 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Kaushal Modi wrote: > But if the command is 'cd-shell', that reduces the discoverability =E2=80=8BJust use {M-x apropos RET} which will find either 'cd' or 'shell= =E2=80=8B'. There is no need to use add-on packages for this. Many Emacs command names still use a verb-noun ordering rather than a prefix-verb ordering, so in that sense, cd-shell works fine. This could just be an alias as well if all of the other shell related commands start with shell-. Bob --001a113d66fcff6b4f053a6c9595 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On F= ri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com= > wrote:
But if the command is = 'cd-shell', that reduces the discoverability

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=E2= =80=8BJust use {M-x apropos RET} which will find either 'cd' or = 9;shell=E2=80=8B'.=C2=A0 There is no need to use add-on packages for th= is.=C2=A0 Many Emacs command names still use a verb-noun ordering rather th= an a prefix-verb ordering, so in that sense, cd-shell works fine.=C2=A0 Thi= s could just be an alias as well if all of the other shell related commands= start with shell-.

Bob


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