Re: transient

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, May 18 2020, Richard Stallman wrote:
>   > I like it very much because it helps see the rationale 
>   > behind
>   > keybinding. After a while you get to learn the bindings for 
>   > the
>   > commands you use the most and you can easily explore new 
>   > commands.
>
> For those that know Transient -- do you think it would provide 
> that
> benefit too?

Well, which-key simply displays existing keybindings. A package 
author doesn't have to do anything, which-key just works.

Transient OTOH defines its own key sequences, so you can't use it 
to show users existing keybindings. If a package author wants 
their package to work with transient, they have to define 
transient menus for all functionality they want to expose.

Transient key bindings also work differently from standard Emacs 
key bindings. That's not a bad thing, because transient's main 
purpose is to provide an interface to external command line 
programs (such as git, as it was originally developed as part of 
magit) and it's well-suited for that.

It would be possible to use transient to provide an interface to 
Emacs packages, but the interface would be different from what is 
standard, so it's not a which-key replacement.


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Joost Kremers
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