From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generic dispatcher Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:23:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877ghajux4.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372721021 17730 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 23:23:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 23:23:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 02 01:23:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UtnRa-0002h9-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 01:23:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtnRZ-0006VS-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtnRW-0006VL-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtnRU-0007Ex-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:49014) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UtnRU-0007Ed-RS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:23:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r61NNT2T016621; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0BAAFAE169; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:23:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <877ghajux4.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:01:43 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4626=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4626> : streams <992493> : uri <1464186> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161434 Archived-At: > I think that's a good idea. But (as I mentioned in the "Rename `eww' to > `web'" discussion) I think focusing on command names is the wrong > approach for usability. These should be first-class commands in every > way, accessible from a top-level menu Of course, they'd have a place in the menu, as well. We already have menu entries for them, to a large extent. > and from a convenient key sequence. Here, I'm much less convinced it's generally useful. Maybe for some of them, but definitely not for all of them. Stefan