From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 12578d6: Change how (declare (modes store the data
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:29:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lDiF7-000733-T8@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4ki623vn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 20 Feb 2021 09:50:51 -0500)
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> BTW, maybe the generalization is to replace the "completion-predicate"
> and the "command-modes" into a function that returns a *score*, with
> some convention where a score lower than X means the command can't
> possibly work, and score lower than Y means the command is too unlikely
> to be useful to be worth listing, a score higher than Y means that the
> command has a special affinity with the current situation (like "written
> for the current mode"), ...
There must be no end to the levels of complexity we could put into this
feature, but this could be past the point of diminishing returns.
I suggest people stop making this more complicated and see how people
like it. In the mean time, we could work on improving other aspects
of Emacs.
--
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)
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2021-02-20 14:50 ` master 12578d6: Change how (declare (modes store the data Stefan Monnier
2021-02-20 14:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-21 6:19 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-21 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-21 6:29 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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