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From: wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Fred Hansen)
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Subject: Re: Meta-X package
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Date: 26 Jul 90 17:32:15 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 26-Jul-90 Re: Meta-X package Guy
Harris@uunet.uu.net (3111)

> the whole completion stuff wasn't wonderfully-well
> documented and seemed a bit intricate.

Amen.

> in Gosling EMACS, there is a "run a command" function, done
> with M-X, and an "evaluate Mlisp expression" function, done with
> something else.  "ness-dostmt" seems more like the latter than the
> former.

This is precisely right.

> OK, I'll bite.  Where's the code that prompts for a folder name if, say,
> you have "messages-classify-by-name" bound to a key or menu item, and
> you invoke it through a key sequence or menu item, rather than from
> Ness?

I must admit I didn't check to see if messages-classify-by-name prompted
for the folder name.  Apparently this function is meant to be called
with one of the messages-compound-... operations which permit calling
functions and passing arguments in a fairly ad hoc and undocumented
manner.

Fred Hansen