Re: more on anything.el inclusion

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:

>> Actually installing anything is easy and work out of the box with only:
>>
>> (require 'anything-config)
>> (require 'anything-match-plugin) ; facultatif
>
> For packages included in emacs we try to avoid using require to
> activate the package.  [I don't know anything about this particular
> package, so...]

A lot of autoload cookies are missing in anything-config, however, 

(autoload 'anything-find-files "anything-config.el" "" t)

is enough to enable anything.

>
>> Anything is now self documented both in mode-line and with C-h m or your
>> usual help command, but yes a manual would be nice.
>
> Can you please add some brief description of what it actually does?
>
> ;;;; anything.el --- open anything / QuickSilver-like candidate-selection 
> framework
>
> does not tell much...

anything is a framework that allow to setup an interactive and
incremental display to select candidate and provide diverses actions on
it or many of them.

Basically, you can see that as a big completing-read, but incremental
with nice display, and providing differents action on candidate selected
in collection.

-- 
Thierry Volpiatto
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