From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Per-mode obarray for M-x
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:39:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Pwkx5-00070F-Ig@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=sb=BCeYupOW265NDSkDz1VThj8KHA00C21xBv@mail.gmail.com> (message from Scott Frazer on Sun, 6 Mar 2011 08:04:42 -0500)
The idea of M-x is to run a command by name.
It is undesirable for modes to be able to interfere with that.
We have plenty of ways to invoke commands that depend
on the major mode, so this one should remain mode-independent.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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USA
www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 13:04 Per-mode obarray for M-x Scott Frazer
2011-03-06 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-06 15:56 ` Scott Frazer
2011-03-06 18:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-03-06 13:39 ` David Engster
2011-03-06 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-08 0:39 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2011-03-08 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-09 0:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-09 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-09 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-09 14:33 ` Scott Frazer
2011-03-09 16:08 ` Davis Herring
2011-03-10 23:15 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-11 2:18 ` Scott Frazer
2011-03-11 14:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-11 18:21 ` Scott Frazer
2011-03-11 19:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
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