From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Per-mode obarray for M-x Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:02:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299711789 29031 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 23:03:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: frazer.scott@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 00:03:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxSPG-0000Ke-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:03:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxSPF-0002JO-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:03:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54456 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxSPA-0002J1-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:02:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxSP9-0002et-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxSP9-0002ep-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:02:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxSP9-00074r-Bo; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:02:55 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:26:49 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:137009 Archived-At: Noone suggested otherwise. What we're discussing here is to let the user type M-x foo RET and have it do something useful rather than signal that `foo' is not a command (e.g. run `bar-foo', or run `bar' if it is listed as a mode-local alias). So this would be a secondary method of lookup, used only if there is no such symbol? I wouldn't object to that. (I didn't see that stated explicitly). -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org