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From: Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 74617@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74617: 30.0.92; ffap-menu always displays the *Completions* buffer
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:13:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bjxw8rh2.fsf@daniel-mendler.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8qt0iloo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:09:23 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> It also calls `minibuffer-completion-help' which belongs to the default
>> completion UI but not strictly to the abstract `completing-read' API.
>
> Maybe `minibuffer-completion-help` should call
> a `minibuffer-completion-help-function`, so that it shows the help using
> the user's favorite UI?

Yes, this was one of the proposals I made. However this has a downside.
It always prevents displaying the *Completions* buffer, while sometimes
it may be desired to open it on demand.

Daniel





  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-30 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-30  7:02 bug#74617: 30.0.92; ffap-menu always displays the *Completions* buffer Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-30  8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-30  8:34   ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-30  9:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-30  9:40       ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-30 12:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-30 16:25           ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-30 16:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-30 17:18               ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-30 19:09             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-30 19:13               ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-11-30 17:46         ` Juri Linkov
2024-11-30 18:39           ` Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-30 18:58             ` Juri Linkov
2024-11-30 21:30           ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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