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Re: Current mode command discovery
From: |
Jean Louis |
Subject: |
Re: Current mode command discovery |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 14:16:06 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) |
* Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> [2021-02-17 02:33]:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Imagine user confusion and frustration when a command that is known to
> > Help cannot be invoked!
>
> Why would the user wish to invoke a command that makes no sense on the
> context he is working on? On the best case, the command will just throw
> an error. At worse, it will mess up things.
For consideration let me also mention, that:
- I am developing my commands in such a way that they are related to
the specific package and to specific derived mode, but that such
commands shall mostly work outside of the mode as well.
The mechanism to exclude commands belonging to specific mode shall
be perfect as not to exclude such commands which may be used both
globally and mode-specifically.
Example is my command `cf-tabulates-notes' that could maybe later be
renamed to `cf-notes' as that one will recognize if it is inside of
the derived mode and show notes to specific person, but may as well
be invoked outside of the mode in any other mode, and ask user for
the person or account to which notes are related to.
- It is not logical to have commands being shown in M-x that cannot be
anyway invoked in some mode, let us say like:
`Buffer-menu-backup-unmark' or `Buffer-menu-delete', etc. it is all
clear that such commands do not belong to every mode.
Yet I hope that mechanism for discovery of commands that may be
considered useless in some modes will be good enough as not to
disable those mode related commands that also work globally,
including those global commands that are not mode related.
Jean
- Re: [External] : Re: Current mode command discovery, (continued)
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/20
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/20
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/21
- RE: [External] : Re: Current mode command discovery, Drew Adams, 2021/02/22
- RE: [External] : Re: Current mode command discovery, Drew Adams, 2021/02/20
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/19
- RE: [External] : Re: Current mode command discovery, Drew Adams, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery,
Jean Louis <=
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Robert Pluim, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/17
- RE: [External] : Re: Current mode command discovery, Drew Adams, 2021/02/14
Re: Current mode command discovery, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/02/14
Re: Current mode command discovery, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/02/14
Re: Current mode command discovery, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/02/14