From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs becoming Word? Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:13:01 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Message-ID: References: <20050328001728.GA29944@dionysus.ucolick.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111976105 26536 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2005 02:15:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 04:15:01 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFjmJ-00065R-Tw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 04:14:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFk2I-0005st-JA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:31:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!7d2d8a70!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9bb485d0125de0c9ef037b7bb392ed4c Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net Original-X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1111975981 9bb485d0125de0c9ef037b7bb392ed4c (Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:13:01 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:13:01 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129672 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25225 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25225 >I think it probably wouldn't be too ungodly hard to write a >`what-just-happened' function (but I'm not sure). I don't know about that. Certainly the lisp interpreter should know what function slots it has been executing through. Seems like it would be primarily a job of adding a gazillion entry "recently called functions" array together with some AI for filtering which functions in the array are important to describe "what just happened" (something like keeping track of how frequently each entry was called and recognizing that someone saying "what just happened" was probably startled by some function that hasn't been called much up to this point. Maybe toss in some weighting factor for functions that have changed or are new since the last release as well). Seems almost doable (says someone who is not volunteering :-). -- >>==>> The *Best* political site >>==+ email: Tom.Horsley@worldnet.att.net icbm: Delray Beach, FL | Free Software and Politics <<==+