Re: more on anything.el inclusion

[Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com>]

I tried it at work today and I quite like it. To the extent I wanted
immediately bind it to a key. The idea is about implict context,
normally you have to supply conext in a form of specific function. To
open a file you have to say M-x load-file or to switch to a buffer you
have to say M-x ibuffer-switch, M-x anything try to guess the action
based on a context and give you a choice. So in this case you just say
M-x anything and type characters, and get list of options to do with
the names or symbols containig those.
Wojciech

On 7/1/10, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org> wrote:
> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> Say you want to see how look dejavu fonts in emacs:
>>>> M-x anything-xfonts RET
>>>
>>> Does this happen automatically when you do x-choose-font?
>>
>> Don't know what is x-choose-font, i have not such command.
>
> Sorry, x-select-font
>
> BTW, anything-xfonts is not the best example, looking at fonts is not
> a very frequent action.  Can you give an example of a more frequent
> operation / mode of operation.
>
>>> As a user do I need to know a lot of anything-* function names, or
>>> this happens automatically when I use completion?
>>
>> AFAIK M-x provide completion on all emacs commands, why not for anything
>> commands?
>> You can use anything-M-x or anything-emacs-commands as a replacement of
>> M-x.
>
> So are you saying that instead of using M-x SOMETHING one would use
> M-x anything-SOMETHING?
>
> Normally users don't do M-x find-file, they to C-x C-f, so if you do C-x C-f
> do you get
> M-x anything-find-file ? (and similar for other key bindings)
>
>>> You might want to step back, and think about how to present this to
>>> someone that has not idea what anything.el is, and what it can do.
>> On the user point of view, there is nothing to understand, anything
>> provide emacs commands like any other emacs package.
>>
>> So you do M-x anything- TAB and try differents commands.
>
> As a user, if the package does not quite tell me why would I want to
> try it, I won't do it.  That's why I am asking from some simple, easy
> to understand, significant examples.
>
>>> (I still don't know after a few emails...)
>> I assume you are joking. ;-)
>
> I am not.  All I know that it's a package that does some kind of
> completion that is activated after you do (require 'anything).  But
> it's unclear what type of completion, and why would I want to use it.
> Please don't get this wrong, many people are saying it's a great
> package, but the description can use some improvement.
>
>

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