From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 11131@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11131: 24.0.94; Apropos bookmarks
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:22:50 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjao33j1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4nn4iu0v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:18:59 -0400")
>> With a simple ido-like completion (or iswitchb-like completion), I can
>> jump to the function name quickly without typing the whole function
>> name.
>
> Again: "Which part of "ido-like" would you like to see there?".
The answer has to be how the UI works (i.e., how I *interact* with the
completion mechanism and not how completions are computed.)
It would be wonderful if -
All aspects of completion happens right within the mini-buffer.
With the default interface the following are turn-offs (which is pretty
much everything)
- TAB,
- work window getting split in to two
- Using mouse or RET for final choice
> IDO completion has many differences compared to Emacs's historical
> prefix-completion. But Emacs's current default completion code supports
> several of those features.
>
> E.g. in Emacs-24, C-x b provides substring completion (and if you
> enable icomplete-mode which just shows you the list of completion
> candidates at the end of the minibuffer, it gets even closer to
> iswitchb).
>
>> - (completing-read prompt
>> + (ido-completing-read prompt
>
> That is not an option: we want the completion behavior to be consistent,
> and there's nothing magical about bookmarks which justifies a thoroughly
> different behavior, I think.
> OTOH, maybe bookmarks have particular properties which justify tweaking
> the completion behavior for them, just like it is the case for C-x b.
> E.g. we could make C-x r b use substring completion.
Since my bookmarks are function names, substring completion is what I
desire. (Many functions share the *same* prefix)
[Context Switch] I think having a standard hook to choose the default
name of bookmark will also be useful. In prog-modes, I will probably
set it to which-function.
>> Have bookmark use completing-read-function.
>
> It does, since it calls completing-read which in turn calls the
> completing-read-function.
May be there is a reason why completing-read-function is not
customizable?
> Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-11 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-30 8:26 bug#11131: 24.0.94; Apropos bookmarks Jambunathan K
2012-03-30 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-11 8:11 ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-11 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-11 16:52 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2012-09-11 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-11 19:29 ` Juri Linkov
2012-10-26 17:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-26 20:11 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-26 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
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