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Re: Hercules.el vs hydra for Emacs shortkey bindings managemant.
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Ergus |
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Re: Hercules.el vs hydra for Emacs shortkey bindings managemant. |
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Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:56:05 +0200 |
On August 1, 2021 4:17:50 AM GMT+02:00, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 9:40 AM Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe this is not what you want. But emacs 28 adds a third alternative with
>> a simpler approach: repeat-mode. It is not for people who want a complex
>> hydra experience and many fancy options.
>> But for the basic functionality it works, is simpler to configure and much
>> faster. Customization is also simpler and pretty clear. And less intrusive
>> showing the bindings.
>
>Do you mean this:
>https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/repeat.el
>
Yes. That's what substituted hydra in my setup. It is not so pretty but is
faster.
>> Sadly Hercules and hydra seems low maintained these days. That's why I
>> removed both from my config recently.
>
>According to the number of downloads on melpa, hydra is still widely used [1].
>
Indeed, but it is receiving updates very rarely and the issues reports are
accumulating without reply. Sadly it seems like Abo-abo is too busy because the
same is happening to ivy, avy and swipper.
>[1] https://melpa.org/#/?q=hydra&sort=downloads&asc=false
>
>Hongyi
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