From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Menu commands to M-x history? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:34:42 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0907221134o1a1fe024k353b1a9a61482041@mail.gmail.com> References: <87skgqu2ce.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <7432.1248236149@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248287962 21225 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 18:39:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 22 20:39:15 2009 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 4.50) id 1MTgif-0005Qg-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:39:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTgie-0004Lr-LX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTgel-0001mj-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTgeg-0001i7-GS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49951 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTgeg-0001hx-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com ([209.85.219.213]:49370) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTgee-0008UO-Ax; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so467755ewy.42 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:35:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=P1osviAi+lK6hkik3KyS/lt8YgLuhLYU4F0rfyMo5hM=; b=qybO7K5NxpfPWkdlK8MsaT0JA19xHtG5SdtFxH6VW84rqDPx7HvkLBkhTdb50SNUpW fOduhw0KyKMi1VxkiO0P7v26HEJs4oHvSfHvSKFSUBTlW0Ami63M0dfrC3rFeS67hOe5 JX30BxxUBWg/ExegsvkNErBmXOpKOI1saYEH8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FBvQR45xcb6x7G1WcS0HKdQmO8m6rAR+GYBmrKDONc+PFU5VGUYW5uF0mPTPYjlKvC VqRk04C42e5cOa6zG4ceY62V9k+AMPvde5Cy8jO4P2UvkXPoMEtOvzJiEUbMXX40b1od BrTZl6PuLC9IWDHmydH5xvWyUYA8K5i3EhyEU= Original-Received: by 10.216.8.209 with SMTP id 59mr367588wer.18.1248287702253; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:35:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7432.1248236149@olgas.newt.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:113017 Archived-At: > Perhaps a better way of learning what command is on a button or menu > item is to use help such as `M-x help RET k RET'. I think that is enough too. At first I kind of liked Lennart's idea. For example, sometimes I have used the Edit -> Text Properties -> Foreground Color command and have been wondering how to do the same from the keyboard (is it possible?) but I think I would be annoyed having my precious M-x history filled with things I did not expect. Quite often I execute the same M-x command over and over again, doing something else in between, and if what I did in between included executing some menu commands I might be annoyed to have to step back some extra steps in order to get at the command I want to run. BTW, Lennart, you run Windows, right? Wouldn't your proposal be like adding stuff to the Start -> Run prompt history whenever you ran something from a shortcut on the Start menu? (hmm... hopefully you would not like this, but who knows... :) /Mathias