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From: Hugo Heagren <hugo@heagren.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Suggestion: convert dispatchers to use transient
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:59:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c364693bf6856e60cdd3e8b63ab0c9284d16733.camel@heagren.com> (raw)

Org uses various dispatchers, where invoking a command gives the user a
choice of different sub-commands, chosen by pressing a relevant key,
from a list displayed on the screen. Some of these dispatchers include
options which can affect the command chosen. Examples include org-
capture, org-beamer-select-environment and org-export-dispatch.

These desptachers are idiosyncratic, written for purpose, and each
behave differently. They have varying levels of customisability, and
this is reached in different ways for each. Overall, I think the user-
experience could be more consistent and more easily customisable.

Luckily, recent versions of emacs ship with transient.el, a powerful
way of building such interfaces in a consistent and easily extensible
way.

So, I propose to rewrite the current dispatchers as transients. What
does the community think? I would be happy to work on this unless
others strongly object, but I don't  know everything about org, so if
others could help me with a list of other dispatchers which could also
be converted that would be helpful.

Blue skies, Hugo



             reply	other threads:[~2022-02-03  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-02 11:59 Hugo Heagren [this message]
2022-02-03  8:54 ` Suggestion: convert dispatchers to use transient Tom Gillespie
2022-02-03 10:07 ` Tim Cross
2022-02-03 17:51   ` Jim Porter
2022-02-03 21:30     ` Tim Cross
2022-02-04  1:13       ` Jim Porter
2022-02-04  5:37       ` Christopher M. Miles
2022-02-05 20:18       ` João Pedro de Amorim Paula
2022-02-06  1:49         ` Samuel Wales
2022-02-06  3:28           ` João Pedro de Amorim Paula
2022-02-07 15:37 ` Anders Johansson

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