From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: yzhh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recording-elisp.el - try recording commands as elisp code Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:29:17 +0800 Message-ID: References: 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 1194331074 16156 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2007 06:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:37:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 06 07:37:58 2007 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 1IpI4T-00075f-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:37:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpI4I-0004pm-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:37:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpI4E-0004pL-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:37:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpI4D-0004p8-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:37:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpI4C-0004p5-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:37:40 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpI4C-0007K5-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:37:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IpI0f-0003ph-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: from 211.90.238.185 ([211.90.238.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: from yezonghui by 211.90.238.185 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:34:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.90.238.185 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:82626 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > If you offer user choices, I think the only way to make that easy to use > is to generate output in one way (the default), then let the user point at > various places in the generated Lisp code and give commands that say > "generate this function call using a different method". Users should love this if done properly. One complication is "generate this sequence of function calls using a different method." I mean we have to design an intuitive way to indicate the user where he has choices, and better show what choices he has. I'd like to discuss this later when I've done a usable default version. -- regards, yzhh