From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Menu commands to M-x history? Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:03:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87skgqu2ce.fsf@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248228259 10589 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 02:04:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:04:19 +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 04:04:12 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 1MTRBk-0007Lf-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:04:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTRBi-000615-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:04:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTRBe-00060Y-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:04:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTRBZ-0005vV-1n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56457 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTRBY-0005vM-UK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:50524) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTRBW-0003QM-Bv; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n6M248Hm009719 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:04:09 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt010.oracle.com (abhmt010.oracle.com [141.146.116.19]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n6M23wmX016625; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:03:58 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.72.165) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:03:53 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcoKbi4f8S8AVd44TXGyz2J7WF4JqAAAefVw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt010.oracle.com [141.146.116.19] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010203.4A66738A.0065:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:112974 Archived-At: > 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. FWIW, that sounds right to me. The question of informing users what command corresponds to a menu item they've used, and which could therefore be run alternatively via `M-x', is a different question. Nothing wrong with looking for good ways to inform users about this.