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RE: Menu commands to M-x history?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Menu commands to M-x history? |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:03:55 -0700 |
> The only "M-x history" in Emacs is the history list used for reading
> the argument of M-x. That should only be used for arguments that you
> enter in the M-x command.
>
> Keyboard keys also run commands that you could run with M-x, but
> putting their names in the M-x history list would not be consistent or
> useful. It is the same for menu-run commands.
>
> There is also command-history, which gets all commands
> that read an argument from the terminal, whether or not they
> were run from a menu.
FWIW, that sounds right to me.
The question of informing users what command corresponds to a menu item they've
used, and which could therefore be run alternatively via `M-x', is a different
question. Nothing wrong with looking for good ways to inform users about this.
- Menu commands to M-x history?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/20
- Re: Menu commands to M-x history?, Bill Wohler, 2009/07/20
- Re: Menu commands to M-x history?, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/21
- RE: Menu commands to M-x history?,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Menu commands to M-x history?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/21
- Re: Menu commands to M-x history?, Bill Wohler, 2009/07/22
- Re: Menu commands to M-x history?, Mathias Dahl, 2009/07/22
- RE: Menu commands to M-x history?, Drew Adams, 2009/07/26
- Re: Menu commands to M-x history?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/27
- RE: Menu commands to M-x history?, Drew Adams, 2009/07/27
- Re: Menu commands to M-x history?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/27
- RE: Menu commands to M-x history?, Drew Adams, 2009/07/27
- Re: Menu commands to M-x history?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/27
- RE: Menu commands to M-x history?, Drew Adams, 2009/07/27