From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Menu commands to M-x history? Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87skgqu2ce.fsf@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248227053 8138 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 01:44:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bill Wohler Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 22 03:44:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTQsG-0002dg-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:44:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTQsF-0006Z2-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTQre-0006EE-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTQra-0006CR-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37904 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTQra-0006CL-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:43175) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTQrZ-0007bn-P5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MTQrZ-0002oG-Cc; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:21 -0400 In-reply-to: <87skgqu2ce.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (message from Bill Wohler on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:44:33 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112969 Archived-At: > Menu commands are all commands that can be started from M-x. I think > they should be added to M-x history. This seems like a good idea. Whether a command is run with M-x, a menu item, or a button, the semantics should be identical. The only "M-x history" in Emacs is the history list used for reading the argument of M-x. That should only be used for arguments that you enter in the M-x command. Keyboard keys also run commands that you could run with M-x, but putting their names in the M-x history list would not be consistent or useful. It is the same for menu-run commands. There is also command-history, which gets all commands that read an argument from the terminal, whether or not they were run from a menu.