From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core?
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 22:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb27rv5c.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r3d55l24.fsf@student.uu.se>
On 2016-05-14, at 06:18, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> ...
>
> Check out my 'buc' module! (I don't remember why
> I called it that.)
>
> It is actually brilliant. You have a bunch of
> options: A, B, ... N.
>
> Then you have keys on your keyboard: RET, SPC, TAB,
> DEL, that are close and fast and singular.
>
> So there is an association between the options, and
> the keys!
>
> But the genius of it is, if you don't care for any
> of the options displayed and shortcutted, just type!
> Any other char will take away the whole "buc prompt"
> and instead appear as the first char in the input
> string, i.e., an arbitrary string is still inputable!
>
> Also, I added a function so that it works like
> a cache, with the most recently selected option
> always being the leftmost (RET), and then sorted
> rightways... It is an open question if this really is
> beneficial - it can be frustrating as well, if the
> keys keep moving around! It should at least
> be disableable.
Do I get it correctly that you have reinvented hydra? (Or the other way
round;-).)
Though the idea of sorting by recent-ness is nice.
Thanks!
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-21 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 10:09 Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core? Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 15:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 16:37 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 17:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 17:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 18:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-19 20:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-20 1:16 ` John Mastro
2016-05-20 23:52 ` John Mastro
2016-05-21 20:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 18:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-05-14 4:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21 20:49 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-14 4:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21 20:52 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.43.1463863961.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-22 6:32 ` Emanuel Berg
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