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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: command mode-specificity [was: scratch/command 064f146 1/2: Change...]
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:15:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YC6uzAXj9ABbY6Hd@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtw1s1jk.fsf@gmail.com>

Hello, Robert.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 18:55:59 +0100, Robert Pluim wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:35:44 +0000, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> said:

>     Alan> No, not from some other mode.  We're talking about commands shared by a
>     Alan> set of modes known only at runtime.  If the list of modes cannot be
>     Alan> updated at runtime, this is a deficiency in the design.

> Iʼm having a hard time thinking of an example, eg you might not know
> which of the modes provided by the cc-mode package the user actually
> uses, but adding all of them to the relevant commands can be done
> beforehand. Can you expand?

No, it can't be done.  There is no list of "all" CC Mode packages.
They're largely created and distributed by third parties, i.e. they're
outside the orbit of Emacs development.  There is no complete list of
them.

For this facility to be general, the list of modes MUST be changeable at
runtime.

> Robert

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-18 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-16 19:50 command mode-specificity [was: scratch/command 064f146 1/2: Change...] Drew Adams
2021-02-16 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-16 20:23   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-16 20:53     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-16 22:05       ` Drew Adams
2021-02-16 22:15         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-16 22:31           ` Drew Adams
2021-02-16 22:38             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-16 23:22               ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17  0:35                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-17 15:47                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-17 15:59                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-17 16:15                       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-17 16:17                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-17 19:52                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-17 20:21                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-17 22:05                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-17 17:36                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-17 18:44                     ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17 17:57                   ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17  2:39           ` Yuan Fu
2021-02-17  3:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-17  0:13     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-17  0:17       ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17  0:54         ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-17 18:11           ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17 18:40             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-17 19:01               ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17 20:09               ` Yuan Fu
2021-02-17 22:31                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-17  0:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-17  0:59         ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-17 11:20         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-17 14:01           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-17 14:19             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-17 15:20               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-17 15:42                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-17 16:12                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-17 18:26                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-17 18:47                     ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17 18:41                   ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17 18:28                 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-17 16:07               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-17 19:30                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-17 20:07                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-17 21:00                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-18 11:33                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-18 14:37                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18 15:53                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-20 13:30                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-20 14:43                             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-20 14:52                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-20 18:00                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-21 13:10                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-21 19:57                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-19 12:09                         ` [External] : " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-19 12:27                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18 16:30                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-18 16:55                         ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-18 17:08                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-18 17:20                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-18 17:35                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-18 17:55                                 ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-18 18:15                                   ` Yuan Fu
2021-02-19  8:47                                     ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-19  8:55                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-19 11:21                                         ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-19 12:25                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18 18:15                                   ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2021-02-18 19:32                                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-18 20:14                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-18 20:24                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18 19:42                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-18 19:57                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-18 20:04                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-19 12:10                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-19 12:41                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-19 12:57                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-19 13:12                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-17 19:02           ` Yuan Fu

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