"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe buffers isn't the best example, a better one could be >> friends, or colleagues. Say I want to send a chat message to my >> friend. Using `anything' I type in his name and get a match, then I >> get to choose whether I want to start to chat with him or send him >> an e-mail.
> I added experimental support for multiple actions. Action attribute > can also be a list (see the doc) and using TAB any action can be > selected from this list instead of executing the default action. See > source Buffers as an example. The newest version is on emacs wiki. Hi, it's me again... :) This seems to work well. However, I have some thoughts about it. Let's take the example with contacts again, because it is familiar to me: Say I want to contact a friend, let's call him Tom. I start `anything' and type away and Tom's name shows up in the list. I type TAB and see the two actions `Chat' and `Send e-mail'. This is exactly what I wanted. But, what if Tom isn't online and available for chat? Well, it's not a big problem, but maybe I approached this scenario in the wrong way. Maybe another approach would be better? For example, one could define a type for each source and then have type handlers instead of hard coding a list of actions. Each handler could then be called with two arguments, ITEM and ACTION. ITEM is the item selected by the user. ACTION would be one of `query' and `execute'. When a handler is called with `query' it will need to return either `t' or `nil'. `t' means that the handler will be able to take care of this particular item, in my scenario it will see if Tom is online and if he is, return `t', otherwise `nil'. Only if after the query the handler returns `t' will that action be displayed in the action list. When the user selects a certain action, the handler will be called with `execute' instead. I should point out that the above is mostly loose ideas that I got, I am very happy with how `anything' currently works and use the iswitchb integration right now. Very useful! Having file name history and bookmarks as fallback when switching buffers is really neat. /Mathias _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
