From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Systematic implicit aliases for option variables
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:24:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nOu49-0003S0-Gi@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
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`occur' is an alias for the command `list-matching-lines'.
`occur' may be used by more people than `list-matching-lines'.
There are options named `list-matching-lines-*', but people who know
the command as `occur' may not think to look for options with those
names.
Does it make sense to define a command `customize-command' which takes
a command name as argument and shows you the options that are
pertinent to customizing that command?
If you give it `occur', it would recognize that that is an alias
for `list-matching-lines', and show you the options pertinent to
`list-matching-lines'. You wouldn't need to know that `occur'
is an alias.
I think the hard part of this would be adding a data base to find the
custom groups that are pertinent to any particular command.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next reply other threads:[~2022-03-01 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 4:24 Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-03-01 8:08 ` Systematic implicit aliases for option variables Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-02 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-02 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-03 5:08 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-01 17:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-03 5:05 ` Richard Stallman
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