From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 18:57:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83eehibn97.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pn16mehu.fsf@gnus.jao.io> <87o8gpvdfd.fsf@gnus.org> <87a6s9mf87.fsf@gnus.jao.io> <87o8goryuj.fsf@gnus.org> <87y2fqepza.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <87pn12u3x8.fsf@tcd.ie> <87h7meenj0.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17470"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, acm@muc.de, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 17:58:55 2021 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 1lBKjW-0004Rl-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:58:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53082 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBKjV-0005HJ-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:58:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBKiK-0004RQ-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:57:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41141) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBKiK-00048L-5L; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:57:40 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1137 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lBKiI-0005PT-H9; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:57:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:11:47 -0600) 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:264729 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:11:47 -0600 > Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > - This feature is extremely useful, I think a big improvement in user > experience and one of the things to be excited about for Emacs 28. > > - This is a clean and natural expansion of `interactive'. > > - I'm not sure what it means to turn things upside down. I assume you > mean that a horrible mess has been made? If so, I must disagree with > that, too. I think the important question is: can we have this feature in a way that has fewer downsides? Backward incompatibility of byte code is definitely a downside; if it can be avoided, that would be a net win, I think.