From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:29:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="12040"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 30 04:31:54 2020 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 1jTyzS-00032T-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:31:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35220 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyzR-0006s1-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:31:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyxH-0003hd-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41242) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyxG-0007Le-Vy; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyx8-0007jQ-TN; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:29:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:01:31 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:248204 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The TL;DR is: > > Taking inspiration from prefix keys and prefix arguments, Transient > > implements a similar abstraction involving a prefix command, infix > > arguments and suffix commands. [...] When the user calls a transient > > prefix command, then a transient (temporary) keymap is activated, > > which binds the transient's infix and suffix commands, [...] The > > available suffix and infix commands and their state are shown in a > > popup buffer until the transient is exited by invoking a suffix > > command. That focuses on _how_ it works, but could you tell us in concrete terms what job it does? Perhaps show us an example of use. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)