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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: VC menu ?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 07:27:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tk1erfz.fsf@holos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7CA2A27-DB7F-4DA6-A1A6-52444532D6A9@gmail.com> (Jean-Christophe Helary's message of "Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:51:46 +0900")

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:

> Why is the VC menu hidden in the Tool menu when it's such an important item in an emacs workflow? Couldn't we have VC as a standard base menu?
>
> I just discovered that the command John Wiegley suggested to use in an
> answer to a recent query of mine was *right under my nose* in the
> Tools/Version Control menu. If the VC menu had been next to Tool (just
> like other mode menus are) I would have probably tried a few commands
> there before asking...

Yes, and let's further add top-level menu items for every other
important tool in Emacs workflows.  That way, the menu shows every
useful thing at once, and is simultaneously cumbersome to the point of
unusability.

Sarcasm aside, if you had ever flipped through the Emacs manual or
scrolled through a list of keybindings, you would have been aware of VC.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-06 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-06  6:51 VC menu ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-06 11:27 ` Mark Oteiza [this message]
2017-07-06 12:07   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-07-06 12:10   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-06 12:20     ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-06 12:25       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-06 12:41         ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-06 13:28           ` Stephen Berman
2017-07-07 13:16             ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-06 14:01   ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-07-06 14:20     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-07  0:50     ` Mark Oteiza
2017-07-07  2:26       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-07  4:29         ` Homeros Misasa
2017-07-07 12:31       ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-07-07 13:22         ` Drew Adams
2017-07-07 13:33           ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-07-07 13:31     ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-06 13:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-07-06 17:03   ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-06 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-06 15:09   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-06 15:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-06 16:49   ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-07-06 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-08  1:25   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-08  7:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-09 22:59       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-10 16:49         ` Eli Zaretskii

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