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: Systematic implicit aliases for option variables Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:46:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <9F2080B9-A7FE-4E7B-9920-8368A9D6DEBE@gnu.org> 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="18812"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 05:48:07 2022 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 1nPGuF-0004j1-GR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2022 05:48:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37204 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nPGuE-0003zd-AQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nPGt2-0003Gc-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=51162 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nPGt2-00008E-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:46:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=YDWTO8/r6W0ZYIvi2SBOzn/ukoKw0j+8NP5cIKXKzZM=; b=pT7vpc3sXhpq EiSFuRyiO+yBr3quH7LzHAlSScZzji/x42FkrXwhiavqcV680HlrAkOMIHZp5phxGoz3unYyjHZvu Z/Ge8KIdMxmYejlIG2P8jxnk5hrsnSVaZeNTVDBPg8YnwBzWNzdMIGEhZdSDUFEBCtxBt7z4L2RB2 JERZOC4V38ezTb+IsPKmzV0OEZIOeuaJ5TEu7vrJMM2DIXS7zudrrNNDN+hm62KPsG5M71fAg3xtD mPBFZD56pWN/XEMxbul261xxxoZmDJHugvNxPn/9OvvVJbIFS6QXJzKc8s0ru4CE97goTrWTB1YZ9 i0rVOkSp77ie+P0WZEf2ZA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nPGt1-0002mX-Pm; Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:46:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9F2080B9-A7FE-4E7B-9920-8368A9D6DEBE@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:08:01 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:286761 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. ]]] > > 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. > > > Sounds like a natural extension of customize-apropos, which we already have? Could you explain how it relates to customize-apropos? That selects options purely on their names -- the feature I request would select them based on semantics. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)