Kaushal Modi <kaushal.m...@gmail.com> writes: > Copying this on both Emacs devel and Org mode list. Hopefully this discussion > is eligible for that. > > Problem statement: Need to have a pretty interface that shows the available > valid key bindings. > > We have something custom developed for Org export interface. Magit has its > own popup interface. I know verilog-mode.el has something in-house for > picking the skeleton for insertion, but the interface is not as good as > hydra's. > Projectile.el (not on GNU Elpa) has its projectile commander, another > in-house attempt to get a similar pop-up interface. > > Of all those options and more that I've seen out there, hydra.el looks like > the most elegant and *configurable* option. > > Can hydra.el be merged into Emacs core, so that all the packages can start > taking advantage of that? We need to stop having each package develop their > own way to do this same thing.
Hydra definitely sounds nice, but unless I'm misunderstanding how it works, it can't be a replacement for either Org's export interface, or Magit's popups. Both of those can set various state variables before choosing an actual action -- Hydra can't do that, can it? Did I hear that Magit was breaking its popup interface out into a separate library? If so, that would also be a nice thing.
