From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>, 1525@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1525: prompt string for execute-extended-command not flexible
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:41:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpqlgqibv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ei1yff94.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:15:51 +0200")
> (key-description (car (where-is-internal 'execute-extended-command)))
> Is there any reason it doesn't just use this_command_keys which
> presumably would be more correct?
Actually the problem is that it should never have said "M-x " but rather
"Run command: ". From this viewpoint, there's no need to use
this_command_keys: "M-x" is really only meant to be "the canonical
key-binding for this command", so (key-description (car
(where-is-internal 'execute-extended-command))) works as well.
Otherwise if someone happens to hit the "menu" key without realizing
that it's bound to execute-extended-command he might start wonder "OK
the menu bar says 'menu ' what do I do now?", whereas presumably with
"M-x " the user sees "oh that runs the same command as M-x, cool".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 22:36 bug#1525: prompt string for execute-extended-command not flexible xah lee
2011-07-10 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-12 3:20 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-12 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-07-12 8:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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