From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core? Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 22:52:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87vb27rv5c.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87shxrczlt.fsf@mbork.pl> <86r3d55l24.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1463863997 24048 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2016 20:53:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 20:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 21 22:53:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b4DtP-0001RJ-Gw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 May 2016 22:53:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41221 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b4DtO-0007iv-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 May 2016 16:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b4Dt1-0007hm-T6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 May 2016 16:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b4Dsx-00032l-SM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 May 2016 16:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:37253) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b4Dsx-00032d-Kn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 May 2016 16:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5B7B956C1; Sat, 21 May 2016 22:52:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yzvCpztrd0I1; Sat, 21 May 2016 22:52:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (98-171.echostar.pl [213.156.98.171]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 14EE8B956BF; Sat, 21 May 2016 22:52:32 +0200 (CEST) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 25.1.50.1 In-reply-to: <86r3d55l24.fsf@student.uu.se> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110089 Archived-At: On 2016-05-14, at 06:18, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Marcin Borkowski 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