Hi Juan:

I just tried your ':' technique for Hyperbole button activation with Avy
and it works well.  But what is the advantage over just using Avy to jump
to the button and then pressing {M-RET}.  With your technique, you have to
think about activating the button before you are there versus when you are
on it, as you normally do.

-- rsw


On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 10:32 AM Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net>
wrote:

> Hi, Robert,
>
> Robert Weiner writes:
>
> > We do like avy and as you say, Hyperbole can work with it.  We try to
> > avoid requiring any non-builtin Emacs packages for Hyperbole.  With a
> > few, we support them optionally.  Unless there is a strong use case
> > for utilizing avy in certain ways, we would tend to leave that to
> > others to extend Hyperbole but personally I just add it in and use its
> > character and line navigation sometimes.  Did you have any particular
> > uses in mind?
>
> My use of the mouse within Emacs is practically nonexistent, and outside
> of Emacs I have relegated the mouse to a few graphical applications such
> as Gimp, Krita, Scribus, and little else. That's why I find avy
> extremely handy for quickly navigating through text. By adding an action
> to avy-dispatch-alist you can execute an arbitrary command once the
> cursor has jumped to its target. For example, I have put this for
> hyperbole in my init:
>
> (add-to-list 'avy-dispatch-alist '(?: . (lambda (pt)
>                                           (goto-char pt)
>                                           (hkey-either))))
>
> Thus, the typical action to activate a 'far' hyperbole button would be:
>
> 1. Call avy and insert a letter;
>
> 2. When avy's hints are displayed in the screen, I hit the colon key ":"
> and then the hint letter I want to go to (an implicit button, for
> example). And at the moment the associated action of that button is
> executed.
>
> For those of us who hardly use the mouse, it is really very practical,
> and I think maybe mentioning that tip might be nice in the hyperbole
> documentation.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>