From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Menu commands to M-x history? Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:43:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248198217 18203 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 17:43:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 19:43:30 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 1MTJNC-0001yb-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:43:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51889 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTJNB-0001Vf-T3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTJN7-0001VZ-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTJN2-0001VN-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33789 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTJN2-0001VK-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]:43620) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTJN1-0002PU-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b6so3131500ana.21 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:43:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=QvjBCi2c+4i2Yu4u+4bOFlgK8OzZ4qTnH8l73qmGF/g=; b=EKo3IcpjYp39AcJUiPeT9LCUnHkbxmFAH1FxB3dZncxKi3ky89lR6GpsiYGxLkGfLd 7y0KlFdW7pxHq6zgsA/gvfH6dvGy2RXTZgFWnoJ90dynQzRqGWOvj7lji3GTAJM/4onn jE27f/f+XTwAL3poEk9g2QgBjJUB+hXldIis0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nM/LB/6HunTnvGCUhPaNv4E5Zafe4miMmylX1Kn7R7nT1j4WEG5/53PZqAhQcl39OT lmf6I3aX4+9iBl5eNwZC2ku0zc51wVjGkoNu8W9Bw843nkye83Q80+rDrUVR6xui6MI3 UKHYZd5TAzeZHMYJjzU3xEMwkP+6gkzyL+2kY= Original-Received: by 10.101.66.15 with SMTP id t15mr8211312ank.194.1248198199324; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:43:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:112937 Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Stefan Monnier w= rote: >> Menu commands are all commands that can be started from M-x. =C2=A0I thi= nk >> 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.