From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: discoverability, better defaults and which-key in Emacs Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 08:25:01 +0100 Message-ID: <875xz680xe.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <874jetaxri.fsf@jeremybryant.net> <86fryc1vsh.fsf@gnu.org> <86r0hu4qk8.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ed1B9L9ABK3pQzl3Ku8YcZepPz4= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 03 09:37:33 2024 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 1rWBWm-0008ws-W9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 09:37:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rWBVu-0006Oi-UI; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 03:36:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rWAOw-0007Jd-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 02:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rWAOs-0007nN-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 02:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rWAOp-0003yj-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2024 08:25:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 03:36:37 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:315795 Archived-At: Howard Melman wrote: > A lot of newbies find which-key very useful. I'm a long time > user and often find it useful. Especially for "newfangled" > prefixes like M-g, M-s, C-x x, etc. :) > > I don't know what other beginner features might qualify [...] I don't like the division between beginners and veterans necessarily but here is such a feature, possibly. [ Note the exotic interface BTW with interactive recursion. ] ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; ;; this file: ;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/show-command.el (defun show-key-command (&optional key cmd) (interactive) (let*((key-ps "hit key(s)!") (ps (if cmd (format "%s %s " cmd key-ps) key-ps) ) (k (or key (read-key-sequence-vector ps))) (new-cmd (key-binding k)) (cmd-or-undef (if new-cmd (format "`%s'" new-cmd) "undefined")) ) (if (and key cmd) (string= new-cmd cmd) (if key (message "%s" cmd-or-undef) (unless (equal k [7]) ; [7] is C-g or `keyboard-quit' (show-key-command nil cmd-or-undef) ))))) ;; (show-key-command) ;; ^ eval me (provide 'show-command) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal