From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A different way to interactively pass options to commands Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:42:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878s7m1mo3.fsf@gnus.org> <87ft1u9xhh.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38647"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 06:44:51 2021 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 1lCyax-0009xh-AU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 06:44:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50704 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCyaw-0006rP-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCyYc-000531-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCyYa-0002ck-Va; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lCyYa-0007Bt-4o; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:42:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ft1u9xhh.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes on Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:48:42 +0100) 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:265209 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 intro to Magit, which I watched via invidious rather than by accessing youtube itself, displays text so small I have trouble reading it. I can't see what the options say. But I think I understand the general scheme that is in use. I see how it makes sense for a special mode, for a buffer in which letters can be used as commands. But how can this be applied to an ordinary buffer in which letters self-insert? -- 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)