Re: On the adoption of transient.el

[T.V Raman]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:


I recently discovered thanks to the transient/magit author that once you
 enable navigation via arrows in transient popups, it also gives you
 isearch of the transient. We then discovered a bug where using isearch
 to find a transient option and pressing enter wasn't working, but
 Jonas has since fixed that and it works.
 transient-enable-popup-navigation is a variable defined in ??transient.el??.

Its value is t
Original value was nil

  You can customize this variable.
  This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
  version 0.2.0 of the transient package.

Whether navigation commands are enabled in the transient popup.

While a transient is active the transient popup buffer is not the
current buffer, making it necessary to use dedicated commands to
act on that buffer itself.  If this non-nil, then the following
features are available:

- "<up>" moves the cursor to the previous suffix.
  "<down>" moves the cursor to the next suffix.
  "RET" invokes the suffix the cursor is on.
- "<mouse-1>" invokes the clicked on suffix.
- "C-s" and "C-r" start isearch in the popup buffer.


> Rudolf Adamkovi?0?0 <salutis@me.com> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> On the other hand something has always felt off about transient, in
>>> the sense that it is breaking some expected behaviour or couldn't
>>> pin-point yet, but just unconsciously stumble over. 
>>
>> This is exactly how I feel about the "modern" interfaces in Emacs. I
>> reported a bug in Embark recently, and because I could not select and
>> copy the text, I ended up re-typing the text that was right in front
>> of me in Emacs. Say what? For me, Emacs is a program where I expect to
>> never waste time re-typing anything. Magit has a similar feel to it,
>> and I can never be sure if the program will allow me to select text in
>> the diverse parts of its user interface. In my opinion, such
>> uncertainty is bad for power users. I would expect this from Apple or
>> Microsoft software, because their latest ??UX designers?? surely know
>> better than anyone, but in Emacs?
>
> I am not sure if this is something specific to modern interfaces, or
> rather an overreaching when it comes to binding. After a while I managed
> to "pin-point" what was irritating me, and it was the missing ability to
> search (something that I seem to do so passively that i didn't even
> notice it). Having C-s work is especially useful when there are a lot of
> transient options. This cannot be solved by binding C-s manually,
> as just because that might work for me, there is some other behaviour
> someone else is expecting (eg. your example of selecting and copying
> text).
>
> What I understand transient and certain other packages do is basically
> override most keys, even those it doesn't use. This is more invasive
> than special-mode, that just doesn't bind self-insert-command to most
> keys. What I wonder is why this is done/why it might be necessary.
>
>> R+

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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