From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: more on anything.el inclusion Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:59:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y6dydn6q.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87iq509yji.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87mxucxt8w.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87tyok8guu.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87hbkkxow6.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277938769 16504 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2010 22:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rubikitch@ruby-lang.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 00:59:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU6Fa-0003W4-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:59:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OU6Fa-0005qe-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38794 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OU6FV-0005pl-Gd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OU6FT-0000RP-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53240) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OU6FT-0000RL-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:59:19 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU6FS-0002L1-4H; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:59:18 -0400 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126562 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:36:31 +0200 Thierry Volpiatto wrote: >> >> TV> We did lot of work on anything since this time, anyone can see, try >> TV> and use anything on http://repo.or.cz/w/anything-config.git If you >> TV> like it, then we could include in emacs. >> >> Strangely, I can't check it out over HTTP: >> >> % git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/anything-config.git >> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tzz/source/anything-config/.git/ >> warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. >> >> (and nice warning, the checkout fails completely!) > > >> but it works with the git://repo.or.cz/anything-config.git URL. > > Yes sorry, clone with: > git clone git://repo.or.cz/anything-config.git > >> I think the revision history should be cut out of anything.el. >> >> It's pretty hard for a novice to get started customizing the sources. >> There is almost no Customize support AFAICT for anything-sources. The >> existing anything.el docs assume good knowledge of Emacs Lisp. I don't >> know if that is a problem, but a real manual would be very helpful for >> beginners. > > anything-sources is deprecated and should be used with care with only > few sources, the one provided by default with anything.el are enough. > > So the use of M-x anything is deprecated, you should use now commands > provided in anything-config.el. > > Setting up a function for commands not provided is simple as: > > (defun anything-buffers-only () > (interactive) > (anything-other-buffer 'anything-c-source-buffers+ "*anything buffers*")) > > Actually installing anything is easy and work out of the box with only: > > (require 'anything-config) > (require 'anything-match-plugin) ; facultatif For packages included in emacs we try to avoid using require to activate the package. [I don't know anything about this particular package, so...] > Anything is now self documented both in mode-line and with C-h m or your > usual help command, but yes a manual would be nice. Can you please add some brief description of what it actually does? ;;;; anything.el --- open anything / QuickSilver-like candidate-selection framework does not tell much... > >> What sources should be on by default for Emacs users of anything.el? > > Only the one that are already set in anything.el. > > >> I'm sure there are a lot of style and behavior issues I'm missing. I'm >> so used to anything.el that I'm probably not a good test case of how it >> looks to an Emacs user. >> >> Ted >> >> >> > > -- > Thierry Volpiatto > Gpg key: http://pgp.mit.edu/