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* improvements to the "lossage buffer"
@ 2019-07-30 22:56 Emanuel Berg
  2019-07-30 23:08 ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Emanuel Berg @ 2019-07-30 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

`view-lossage' seems to have improved in
a recent Emacs version upgrade, since it now
displays a neat flow of information with one
key (or one key sequence) on each row with,
even more of an improvement, the name of the
command in square brackets following the
key. E.g.,

     k [next-line]
     i [previous-line]
     k [next-line]
     RET [buffer-menu-kill-and-open]
     C-j e . [anonymous-command]
     ESC o [other-window-or-split]
     ESC o [other-window-or-split]
     ESC o [other-window-or-split]
     ESC p [delete-other-windows]
     C-o k [end-of-buffer]
     C-h l [view-lossage]

This is much better than the old version which
looked like a jungle. Not speaking literally,
that is!

To make it even clearer, why don't you consider
putting the command name in a column of its
own? This would also make the brackets
redundant. Also, isn't, e.g. M-o more used than
"ESC o", both in speech/writing _and_ in code -
and isn't it more intuitive as well? I.e.,
wouldn't this be even better - and improvement
on the improvement, if you will?

     k         next-line
     i         previous-line
     k         next-line
     RET       buffer-menu-kill-and-open
     C-j e .   anonymous-command
     M-o       other-window-or-split
     M-o       other-window-or-split
     M-o       other-window-or-split
     M-p       delete-other-windows
     C-o k     end-of-buffer
     C-h l     view-lossage

I think so!

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2019-07-30 22:56 improvements to the "lossage buffer" Emanuel Berg
2019-07-30 23:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-30 23:27   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-07-31  0:50   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-07-31  5:04   ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-31  6:11     ` Emanuel Berg
2019-07-31  7:41       ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-31  9:09         ` Emanuel Berg
2019-07-31 17:01           ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-31 17:14             ` Dan Sommers
2019-07-31 17:18               ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-31 17:26             ` Yuri Khan
2019-08-01  1:34               ` Emanuel Berg
2019-07-31 12:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-31 17:01       ` Marcin Borkowski

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