From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Systematic implicit aliases for option variables
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:08:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9F2080B9-A7FE-4E7B-9920-8368A9D6DEBE@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nOu49-0003S0-Gi@fencepost.gnu.org>
On March 1, 2022 6:24:49 AM GMT+02:00, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Does it make sense to define a command `customize-command' which takes
> a command name as argument and shows you the options that are
> pertinent to customizing that command?
>
> If you give it `occur', it would recognize that that is an alias
> for `list-matching-lines', and show you the options pertinent to
> `list-matching-lines'. You wouldn't need to know that `occur'
> is an alias.
>
> I think the hard part of this would be adding a data base to find the
> custom groups that are pertinent to any particular command.
>
Sounds like a natural extension of customize-apropos, which we already have?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-01 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 4:24 Systematic implicit aliases for option variables Richard Stallman
2022-03-01 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-03-02 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-02 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-03 5:08 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-01 17:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-03 5:05 ` Richard Stallman
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