From: Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Per-mode obarray for M-x
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 08:04:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=sb=BCeYupOW265NDSkDz1VThj8KHA00C21xBv@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
How hard would it be to make a per-mode obarray for M-x? Sort of like
the per-mode keymap and abbrev tables, I'd like to do "M-x command"
and have it act differently depending on the mode; e.g. "M-x html" in
a org-mode buffer would run org-export-as-html, but the 'default'
action in other buffers would be to run, say, htmlize-buffer.
Here's why I'd like this. There are some commands I run somewhat
often, but they have long and/or difficult to remember names. For
example auto-revert-tail-mode. I am thinking as I type "Is it
auto-revert-tail-mode or auto-tail-revert-mode?" I don't do it often
enough to take up a valuable short key binding like "C-c t", and long
key bindings can be just as difficult to remember. Even with
minibuffer completion it interrupts my workflow, so I do "(defalias
'auto-revert-tail-mode 'tail)" and it becomes just "M-x tail". That's
fine in this case, but you can see how I'm going to quickly run into
problems since there is only one namespace.
I understand this would be a huge undertaking if I wanted this to work
in general elisp code, which is why prefixes are used in function
names to create namespaces. But I just want it to work with M-x.
I am willing to dig around and make a patch myself, but I'd like
someone familiar with the internals to (a) tell me if it's extremely
difficult and/or a bad idea, and if not (b) point me in the right
direction.
Regards,
Scott
next reply other threads:[~2011-03-06 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 13:04 Scott Frazer [this message]
2011-03-06 13:29 ` Per-mode obarray for M-x Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-06 15:56 ` Scott Frazer
2011-03-06 18:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-03-06 13:39 ` David Engster
2011-03-06 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-08 0:39 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-08 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-09 0:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-09 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-09 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-09 14:33 ` Scott Frazer
2011-03-09 16:08 ` Davis Herring
2011-03-10 23:15 ` Richard Stallman
2011-03-11 2:18 ` Scott Frazer
2011-03-11 14:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-11 18:21 ` Scott Frazer
2011-03-11 19:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
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