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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Menu commands to M-x history?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:43:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50907211043m6c911ef0gd321578d34633f5a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk522awd5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Stefan Monnier<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Menu commands are all commands that can be started from M-x.  I think
>> they should be added to M-x history.
>
> Most of them should have a key shortcut anyway, which the user has seen
> in the menu entry.


We have discussed several cases where this is unnecessary. It does not
always reduce the number of keystrokes.


> For those entries which don't have a keyboard shortcut, maybe we could
> (along the lines of what M-x does) output a message like "You can run
> this command with M-x foo-bar-baz".


Yes, and wouldn't it be good to have those commands in the the history
then? In that case a helpful message might tell that too.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-21 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-20 23:05 Menu commands to M-x history? Lennart Borgman
2009-07-21  3:44 ` Bill Wohler
2009-07-22  1:43   ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-22  2:03     ` Drew Adams
2009-07-22  2:18     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-22  4:15     ` Bill Wohler
2009-07-22 18:34       ` Mathias Dahl
2009-07-27  1:47         ` Drew Adams
2009-07-27  9:51           ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-27 15:48             ` Drew Adams
2009-07-27 15:59               ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-27 16:21                 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-27 16:39                   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-27 18:57                     ` Drew Adams
2009-07-27 19:22                       ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-27 20:26                         ` Drew Adams
2009-07-27 20:53                           ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-27 21:16                             ` Drew Adams
2009-07-27 21:34                               ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-27 21:47                                 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-01 20:20                                   ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 17:23                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-27 22:00                 ` Mathias Dahl
2009-07-21 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-21 17:43   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-08-03 21:51   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 17:31     ` Sillyness (was: Menu commands to M-x history?) Stefan Monnier

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