Re: Display the key bindings on the screen

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

"Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
writes:

> I just used it with success, under Emacs 24.3.50.1.

Thanks for testing!

> [...] I'd suggest 3 small (?) improvements:

> - having the same keys not repeated in sequence over separate lines (try to
>   write, for example, "Down 47 times").

I totally agree.  Although the fact that I want to merge in messages
complicates the matter a bit.

> - respect `ilog-log-max' as soon as the limit is exceeded (for
> example, after
>   10 keystrokes), instead after some apparent idle time.

What is the advantage you have in mind?

> - remove the name of the buffer where things occur -- it makes it
> (much, with
>   long buffer names) harder to read, while looking at the screencast
> (if used
>   for that) gives all the needed information about where keys are pressed.
>
> - don't write `self-insert-command': useless to read, for such cases,
> that the
>   key pressed had no special effect other than inserting itself. I would
>   possibly allow the user to be able to customize whether he wants to
> see the
>   command for the other cases, but that's really helpful, in many cases (a
>   great functionality).

No doubt, that would improve readability.  Note that when I wrote it, I
had a totally different use case in mind: to let you reconstruct what
happened the last seconds.  I didn't think of presentation.

Anyway, feel free to contact me when you want to answer:

  (concat "michael" [95] "heerdegen" [64] "web.de")


Regards,

Michael.