From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: more on anything.el inclusion Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:43:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y6dydn6q.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87iq509yji.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87mxucxt8w.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87tyok8guu.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87hbkkxow6.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87pqz721fd.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87hbkjhc8p.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87r5jn8txt.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87wrtfnms7.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278006228 31581 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2010 17:43:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rubikitch@ruby-lang.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 19:43:47 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUNne-0000EX-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:43:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUNne-0003GG-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35504 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUNnX-0003FM-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OUNnW-0002uB-Hr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58177) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OUNnW-0002u7-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUNnV-0001Wh-JG; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:43:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wrtfnms7.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Thu\, 01 Jul 2010 19\:18\:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:126646 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > >>> Say you want to see how look dejavu fonts in emacs: >>> M-x anything-xfonts RET >> >> Does this happen automatically when you do x-choose-font? > > Don't know what is x-choose-font, i have not such command. Sorry, x-select-font BTW, anything-xfonts is not the best example, looking at fonts is not a very frequent action. Can you give an example of a more frequent operation / mode of operation. >> As a user do I need to know a lot of anything-* function names, or >> this happens automatically when I use completion? > > AFAIK M-x provide completion on all emacs commands, why not for anything > commands? > You can use anything-M-x or anything-emacs-commands as a replacement of > M-x. So are you saying that instead of using M-x SOMETHING one would use M-x anything-SOMETHING? Normally users don't do M-x find-file, they to C-x C-f, so if you do C-x C-f do you get M-x anything-find-file ? (and similar for other key bindings) >> You might want to step back, and think about how to present this to >> someone that has not idea what anything.el is, and what it can do. > On the user point of view, there is nothing to understand, anything > provide emacs commands like any other emacs package. > > So you do M-x anything- TAB and try differents commands. As a user, if the package does not quite tell me why would I want to try it, I won't do it. That's why I am asking from some simple, easy to understand, significant examples. >> (I still don't know after a few emails...) > I assume you are joking. ;-) I am not. All I know that it's a package that does some kind of completion that is activated after you do (require 'anything). But it's unclear what type of completion, and why would I want to use it. Please don't get this wrong, many people are saying it's a great package, but the description can use some improvement.