unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
To: 54175@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54175: 27.2; Info-follow-reference completions in reverse order
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:59:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5EDDF26F-4350-469D-B98C-99D7743E9424@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkysntjv.fsf@gnu.org>

On Feb 27, 2022, at 11:49 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 10:43:49 -0500
>> 
>> 2. It's not unreasonable to expect a completion table to be in a meaningful 
>> order when there is one.
> 
> But what is a meaningful order in this particular case, why is it
> more meaningful than the current order?

I believe I explained this.  It is the order they are found in the node. It means 
the offered candidates appear to me in the order I see them in the node.  I think
it was probably more meaningful in the other bug (#38614) as that affected the
order of menu items which are closer together, but this is similar.

And as I explained (and you elided), it provides a meaning interactive experience:

> And I explained my use case which for a user means fewer keystrokes

> in a common case (visit the first reference without having to navigate

> to it or type it's name) which seems far more meaningful than a 

> negligible cost in other cases.

Howard




  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-27 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-27  0:17 bug#54175: 27.2; Info-follow-reference completions in reverse order Howard Melman
2022-02-27  7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27 15:43   ` Howard Melman
2022-02-27 16:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27 16:52       ` Howard Melman
2022-02-27 16:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27 16:59       ` Howard Melman [this message]
2022-02-27 17:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27 17:18           ` Howard Melman
2022-02-27 17:31             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-27 17:50               ` Howard Melman
2022-05-04 14:46                 ` Howard Melman
2022-05-05 11:30                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-05 14:00                     ` Howard Melman

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5EDDF26F-4350-469D-B98C-99D7743E9424@gmail.com \
    --to=hmelman@gmail.com \
    --cc=54175@debbugs.gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).