Re: Kill M-x
Martin Buchholz writes:
This will likely be highly controversial.
Ask and thou shalt receive :-)
But it seems to me that
M-x
is a prompt designed for a 300-baud terminal. Today we can do better.
What does M-x mean anyways? It might mean that the user pressed ESC
followed by x, but that isn't necessarily true if the user has
(global-set-key 'f9 'execute-extended-command)
So fix that problem rather than this non-problem.
Why not just tell the user what's really going on?
If I hit M-x, I want to see M-x. If I hit C-u M-x I want to see C-u
M-x. I often run XEmacs over a slow connection, and the extra time
taken to display "Run command with prefix argument `%S': " would drive
me to homicidal frustration.
The more I look at my patch, the more I like it.
The more I look at it, the more I hate it. I can't stop anyone from
using it, but _please_ make it backwards compatiblizable.
Robert
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