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* Systematic implicit aliases for option variables
@ 2022-03-01  4:24 Richard Stallman
  2022-03-01  8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2022-03-01 17:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2022-03-01  4:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

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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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