Re: A different way to interactively pass options to commands

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Clemens <clemera@posteo.net> writes:

> Adjusting commands on call is traditionally done via universal prefix
> argument. This is mostly nice for numeric repetitions but often it is
> also used to change the behavior of a command in other ways and
> sometimes even multiple ways depending on the number of times `C-u` is
> used.

Yes, `C-u' is the only hammer we have here, unfortunately...  (And
adding commands that are variants of each other.)

> The recent discussion around changing `interactive' made me think
> about ways to improve that. Magit has shown a real nice UI approach to
> pass options with its transient menus. Maybe a simpler but similar
> mechanism could be added which could also be configured via
> `interactive'. Any opinions on this?

What does the Magit UI look like?

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