From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Alan Third Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks? Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:52:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20200528205249.GC919@breton.holly.idiocy.org> References: <87k11htj96.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87pnb7u70r.fsf@red-bean.com> <87y2pvrzho.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87y2pvqhuj.fsf@red-bean.com> <87pnaog13i.fsf@red-bean.com> <87h7w0f03x.fsf@red-bean.com> <5bae1fd5-52ef-46f1-c728-8d5940bf5bbc@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="24450"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cwebber@dustycloud.org, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Karl Fogel , Stefan Monnier , ndame@protonmail.com To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 28 22:56:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jePa8-0006Gw-10 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 22:56:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44806 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jePa7-0001b2-33 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 16:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jePYF-0007xg-CD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 16:54:55 -0400 Original-Received: from idiocy.org ([217.169.17.33]:49650 helo=breton.holly.idiocy.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jePYD-0002IY-IT; Thu, 28 May 2020 16:54:55 -0400 Original-Received: by breton.holly.idiocy.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id A5385202330849; Thu, 28 May 2020 21:52:49 +0100 (BST) Mail-Followup-To: Alan Third , Dmitry Gutov , Karl Fogel , Stefan Monnier , cwebber@dustycloud.org, ndame@protonmail.com, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bae1fd5-52ef-46f1-c728-8d5940bf5bbc@yandex.ru> Received-SPF: none client-ip=217.169.17.33; envelope-from=alan@breton.holly.idiocy.org; helo=breton.holly.idiocy.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/28 16:35:40 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Mac OS X [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251580 Archived-At: On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:45:28PM +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > On 28.05.2020 20:19, Karl Fogel wrote: > > It would only do this the first time a user does `find-file' on a directory? Or would it be every time? > > Someday, we could also turn on fido-mode by default. There, RET means enter > a directory. And/or pick the first suggestion. > > It's a decent behavior for long-times users as well, since C-j provides an > override. This seems like a reasonable solution to me. Alternatively perhaps we just need to sell C-x C-f as "open a file or directory" rather than "find a file"? -- Alan Third