From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Execute a string as a command
Date: 6 Nov 2015 09:43:03 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da3b17FjcbrU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1818.1446789151.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Tim Johnson wrote:
> Here is an example of what could be a working function 'interning'
> a string :
> (defun tj-toggle-funcs ()
> "Toggle functions"
> (interactive)
> (let ((menu
> '("" ("" ("Transient Mark Mode" . "transient-mark-mode"))
> ("Truncate Lines" . "toggle-truncate-lines")
> ("Show Tabs" . "toggle-tabs-font-lock"))))
> (choice ))
> (setq choice (tmm-prompt menu))
> (if choice
> (call-interactively (intern choice)))))
>
> My preference *would* be that a command object be read from the
> 'menu structure, but wasn't able to make it work.
> So my next step is to figure out how to place a command object as a
> value instead of a string... and then evaluate it properly.
Check out the Elisp manual on pop-up menus, which use the function
x-popup-menu, which takes the same kind of menu structure as tmm-prompt.
C-h i Elisp RET Pop-up menus RET
An alternative to what you're trying to do would be to use the hydra
package:
https://github.com/abo-abo/hydra
Here is my toggle hydra, for example:
```
(defhydra jk-hydra-toggle (:color blue)
"Change"
("d" toggle-debug-on-error "Debug")
("w" writeroom-mode "Writeroom")
("i" ispell-change-dictionary "Change Ispell Dictionary")
("f" toggle-fill-unfill "Fill")
("F" follow-mode "Follow mode")
("t" orgtbl-mode "OrgTbl mode")
("y" typo-mode "Typo mode")
("q" nil "Cancel"))
(bind-key "s-r" #'jk-hydra-toggle/body)
```
Yeah, ok, so `ispell-change-dictionary` is not a toggle... But you get the
idea. ;-)
HTH
--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-06 3:23 Execute a string as a command Tim Johnson
2015-11-06 3:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-11-06 4:06 ` Tim Johnson
2015-11-06 21:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-11-07 1:32 ` Tim Johnson
2015-11-07 3:57 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1860.1446859974.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-07 18:32 ` Barry Margolin
2015-11-07 19:36 ` Tim Johnson
2015-11-06 4:40 ` Random832
2015-11-06 5:52 ` Tim Johnson
[not found] ` <mailman.1818.1446789151.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-06 9:43 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2015-11-06 16:17 ` Tim Johnson
2015-11-06 16:49 ` Tim Johnson
[not found] <mailman.1811.1446780244.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-06 3:36 ` Barry Margolin
2015-11-06 3:59 ` Tim Johnson
2015-11-06 3:59 ` Emanuel Berg
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