Re: Generic dispatcher

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> For epa/eww/mhe/... I think we should introduce a generic dispatcher.
> The way I see it, it would look like:
>
> - M-x mail RET runs one of the mail backends.  First time around it
>   prompts the user to choose a MUA, then stores the result in a Custom
>   var and doesn't prompt any more.  This would rely on
>   a mail-alternatives variable holding various MUAs such as Gnus, MH-E,
>   ... and third party packages can easily register themselves in this
>   list via their autoloads.  The user can reconsider his choice with C-u
>   M-x mail RET in which case she gets prompted again.
>
> - same for M-x irc RET
> - same for M-x encrypt RET
> - same for M-x browse RET
> - we could push this further (e.g. auctex vs tex-mode.el) but I'm not
>   sure it'd be such a great idea.

+1

It can reduce the heavy burdens to remember piles of package/command
names.

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