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 02:48:30 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277967049 17250 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2010 06:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:50:49 +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 08:50:47 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 1OUDbP-0007MK-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:50:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUDb4-000050-FN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56280 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUDaz-0008Vt-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OUDav-0006lQ-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:37048) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OUDaY-0006kk-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUDZX-0008Bt-3N; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:48:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pqz721fd.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Thu\, 01 Jul 2010 07\:53\:10 +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:126593 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > >>> Actually installing anything is easy and work out of the box with only: >>> >>> (require 'anything-config) >>> (require 'anything-match-plugin) ; facultatif >> >> For packages included in emacs we try to avoid using require to >> activate the package. [I don't know anything about this particular >> package, so...] > > A lot of autoload cookies are missing in anything-config, however, > > (autoload 'anything-find-files "anything-config.el" "" t) > > is enough to enable anything. That's the same as using require. The preferred way is to do it with a function call, or a mode. >>> Anything is now self documented both in mode-line and with C-h m or your >>> usual help command, but yes a manual would be nice. >> >> Can you please add some brief description of what it actually does? >> >> ;;;; anything.el --- open anything / QuickSilver-like candidate-selection framework >> >> does not tell much... > > anything is a framework that allow to setup an interactive and > incremental display to select candidate and provide diverses actions on > it or many of them. > > Basically, you can see that as a big completing-read, but incremental > with nice display, and providing differents action on candidate selected > in collection. And how do you use it? BTW, this might be obvious to you, but for people that have not used the package is not. Adding a few lines of describing what it does and how to use it is very helpful. [Please note that this has no relation to getting this package included in emacs, this is just what a potential user would like].