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: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:25:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> <5f46b6999109bbc7b6bb28fff988e0b2@webmail.orcon.net.nz> 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="116442"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 04:26:34 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 1jUhrO-000UCU-Dz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 04:26:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42514 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhrN-0004ge-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhqS-00039d-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43962) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhqR-0007Ht-Qa; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUhqF-0006Dv-1W; Fri, 01 May 2020 22:25:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5f46b6999109bbc7b6bb28fff988e0b2@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Fri, 01 May 2020 17:36:17 +1200) 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:248370 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 "Arguments" list at the top shows key sequences beginning with "-" > (-a, -e, -v, -n, -R, -A, -s, -C), and typing any of those will configure > an argument for the command. So in a Magit buffer, typing "c -s -e s" > would open this Transient window, then enable the "--signoff" argument, > then enable the "--allow-empty" option, and finally close the window > and invoke the Magit command for creating a git squash commit using the > selected arguments. Now I understand, and it makes sense. I like it. Those "arguments" are comparable to what we call options, in shell commands -- not to the arguments. It seems to me that calling them "options" would increase overall coherence. What do you think of this? It occurs to me that this might be a good way to present menu bar menus. Also, M-! could use this to select options for shell commands. What do you think of this? -- 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)