From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 51650@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 16:34:29 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAELgYhe6XvAWj0KHBWtohpAnWhV2aAc6XNpgA8xKKptw4yO7uQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgqf7pvm.fsf@gnu.org>
> We are mis-communicating. Let's start from the beginning.
>
> Scenario #1:
>
> . User presses C-x C-f TAB
> . Emacs says [Complete but not unique]
> . User presses TAB once more
> . Emacs pops up *Completions* and still says [Complete but not unique]
>
> Scenario #2:
>
> . User presses C-x C-f Desk TAB
> . Emacs completes to ~/Desktop/
> . User presses TAB once more
> . Emacs pops up *Completions* and says [Complete but not unique]
>
> The difference after the first TAB is because in Scenario #1 there's
> nothing to complete, and what's in the minibuffer is already a valid
> response to the prompt: it specifies an existing file/directory.
> Whereas in Scenario #2 Emacs _can_ complete, and what the user typed
> is not an existing file.
So far so good, but I'm comparing the second Tab in scenario #2 to the
first Tab in scenario #1 because they are both in states characterized
by:
a. a valid response
b. a non-unique completion
c. no information yet communicated to the user about b
Of course one is in ~/ while the other is in ~/Desktop/, so to make
my point clearer I've construed the alternative scenario:
Scenario #3:
. User types M-x cd RET ~/Desktop RET (or launches emacs from ~/Desktop)
. User presses C-x C-f TAB
. Emacs says [Complete but not unique]
. User presses TAB once more
. Emacs pops up *Completions* and still says [Complete but not unique]
The way the user reached ~/Desktop in scenarios #2 and #3 is
irrelevant to me, the fact that s/he has typed Tab before or not is
not adding anything to the fact that the ongoing completion is now
~/Desktop/ and the user still doesn't know whether it's unique or not.
That's why I cannot make sense of the difference in behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-07 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-07 4:27 bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer Carlos Pita
2021-11-07 5:09 ` Carlos Pita
2021-11-07 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 8:16 ` Carlos Pita
2021-11-07 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 8:39 ` Carlos Pita
2021-11-07 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 18:40 ` Carlos Pita
2021-11-07 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 19:34 ` Carlos Pita [this message]
2021-11-07 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 20:27 ` Carlos Pita
2021-11-07 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 21:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-07 21:24 ` Carlos Pita
2021-11-07 22:33 ` Stephen Berman
2021-11-07 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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