From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs becoming Word? Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:13:25 +0200 Organization: Le Petomane Appreciation Society Message-ID: <87wtrssbsa.fsf@rocksteady.printf.se> References: <20050328001728.GA29944@dionysus.ucolick.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111979635 1929 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2005 03:13:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:13:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 05:13:55 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFkhJ-0002HG-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:13:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFkxK-0007Pa-Na for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:30:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 5iT225XbMOSM99tUZCD93g0wxR7QaLwMQ/xDjDY6FIpRySH5lZ X-Now-Playing: The Clash - The Guns of Brixton User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129673 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25226 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25226 tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley) writes: >>I think it probably wouldn't be too ungodly hard to write a >>`what-just-happened' function (but I'm not sure). > > I don't know about that. Certainly the lisp interpreter should know > what function slots it has been executing through. Seems like it would > be primarily a job of adding a gazillion entry "recently called functions" > array together with some AI for filtering which functions in the > array are important to describe "what just happened" (something like > keeping track of how frequently each entry was called and recognizing > that someone saying "what just happened" was probably startled > by some function that hasn't been called much up to this point. Maybe > toss in some weighting factor for functions that have changed or are new > since the last release as well). Seems almost doable (says someone > who is not volunteering :-). C-h v last-command RET -- Vaya Con Satan