Re: Menu commands to M-x history?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Stefan Monnier<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Menu commands are all commands that can be started from M-x.  I think
>> they should be added to M-x history.
>
> Most of them should have a key shortcut anyway, which the user has seen
> in the menu entry.


We have discussed several cases where this is unnecessary. It does not
always reduce the number of keystrokes.


> For those entries which don't have a keyboard shortcut, maybe we could
> (along the lines of what M-x does) output a message like "You can run
> this command with M-x foo-bar-baz".


Yes, and wouldn't it be good to have those commands in the the history
then? In that case a helpful message might tell that too.