Re: Key binding popup interface

[Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:19 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> > For instance, I have a hydra to insert different Org blocks in org-mode,
> > and looks like this:
> > [image: image.png]
>
> [ Hmm... Gnus here doesn't seem to provide any way for me to see
>   this image.  ]
>

Sorry about that.. don't those images show up as attachments? They show up
on the mailing list page fine. Here are 2 messages where I pasted images in
this thread:

- http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2017-12/msg00392.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2017-12/msg00395.html

This sounds a bit like the primitive "hierarkey" feature which I used in
> PCL-CVS.  Basically there I defined a sub-keymap bound to `d` with
> bindings like:
>
>        (?= . ("diff" . cvs-mode-diff))
>        (?2 . ("other" . cvs-mode-diff-other))
>        (?d . ("diff"  . cvs-mode-diff))
>        (?v . ("vendor"  . cvs-mode-diff))
>        ...
>
> so after hitting `d` Emacs shows in the each area something like
> "Diff: vendor, diff, = = diff, 2 = other, ...".
>

I had not heard of that!

This is a very old feature implemented in the C code (src/keyboard.c)
> and very little used.
>
> It would be good to replace it with a more powerful feature implemented
> in Elisp and used more widely.
>

That's a +1 for hydra? :)

You can check out more examples of hydra on its Wiki[1]. I have quite a few
hydra examples in my emacs config too[2].

[1]: https://github.com/abo-abo/hydra/wiki/Emacs
[2]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/search?l=Emacs+Lisp&q=defhydra
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Kaushal Modi

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