Re: [RFC] The best way to choose an "action" at point: context-menu-mode, transient, which-key or embark?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> 1. List of possible actions: ((name1 . action1 props) (name2 . action2 ...) 
>> ...)
>>    PROPS is a plist defining extra properties like key-binding, display
>>    string, maybe something else to be used in the future.
>> 2. Menu interface to use (transient, context-menu, embark, which-key)
>
> This looks like the best design.  Any part of the org buffer could have
> text properties with a list of its available actions.  Such a property
> could be similar to 'context-menu-functions' handled by 'context-menu-map'.
> But since it will be a plain generic list, it could be transformed to any
> menu interface such as transient, context-menu, etc.

I am a bit lost.
Maybe I did not describe the use cases I had in mind well.

What I have in mind is a menu UI for various commands:
1. org-open-at-point (one set of actions)
2. org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c (another set of action)
3. some other command
4. ...

Then, "actions" will be various options a given command can do.

In such scenario, the usefulness of text properties is elusive to me.
I'd rather link the menu items to a command, not to place in buffer.

> To transform it to context-menu, org-mode should provide a function
> like 'context-menu-minor' that will create a corresponding menu
> that will be added as a submenu of the default context menu.
>
> Such integration with existing menus would be better than the current
> implementation of context menus in org-mouse-context-menu that completely
> replaces the context menu with its own.

What do you mean by "default context menu"?

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