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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
@ 2019-07-08 17:19 Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2019-07-08 20:15 ` Drew Adams
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-08 17:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 36554


Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
substring completion in that command...


In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 5, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11)
 of 2019-07-08 built on stories
Repository revision: 4b5847b18295bf41a2c3b8c4e5549a494e5af349
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11902000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)


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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
  2019-07-08 17:19 bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-07-08 20:15 ` Drew Adams
  2019-07-08 20:30 ` Noam Postavsky
  2019-07-08 20:48 ` Juri Linkov
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2019-07-08 20:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen, 36554

> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
> substring completion in that command...

FWIW, Icicles does that.





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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
  2019-07-08 17:19 bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2019-07-08 20:15 ` Drew Adams
@ 2019-07-08 20:30 ` Noam Postavsky
  2019-07-08 20:35   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2019-07-08 20:48 ` Juri Linkov
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Noam Postavsky @ 2019-07-08 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 36554

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 13:20, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
> substring completion in that command...

So should is this more of a request for improving ido? Is there any
other "popular" completion mode that you are thinking of?

FWIW, looks like icomplete-mode works with insert-char.





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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
  2019-07-08 20:30 ` Noam Postavsky
@ 2019-07-08 20:35   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2019-07-09 14:00     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-08 20:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Noam Postavsky; +Cc: 36554

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> So should is this more of a request for improving ido? Is there any
> other "popular" completion mode that you are thinking of?
>
> FWIW, looks like icomplete-mode works with insert-char.

If all the other ones do, I guess it's just for ido.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
  2019-07-08 17:19 bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2019-07-08 20:15 ` Drew Adams
  2019-07-08 20:30 ` Noam Postavsky
@ 2019-07-08 20:48 ` Juri Linkov
  2019-07-08 22:08   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Juri Linkov @ 2019-07-08 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 36554

> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
> substring completion in that command...

C-x 8 C-m *ANGLE TAB





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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
  2019-07-08 20:48 ` Juri Linkov
@ 2019-07-08 22:08   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  2019-07-09 20:16     ` Juri Linkov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-08 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Juri Linkov; +Cc: 36554

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
>> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
>> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
>> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
>> substring completion in that command...
>
> C-x 8 C-m *ANGLE TAB

That helps, but ido (and friends) do completion based on words, while
that will also get TRIANGLE, etc...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
  2019-07-08 20:35   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-07-09 14:00     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-09 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Noam Postavsky; +Cc: 36554

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So should is this more of a request for improving ido? Is there any
>> other "popular" completion mode that you are thinking of?
>>
>> FWIW, looks like icomplete-mode works with insert-char.
>
> If all the other ones do, I guess it's just for ido.  :-)

And...  thinking about it a bit more, it doesn't really make sense for
ido, either, so I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
  2019-07-08 22:08   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-07-09 20:16     ` Juri Linkov
  2019-07-09 21:55       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Juri Linkov @ 2019-07-09 20:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 36554

>>> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
>>> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
>>> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
>>> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
>>> substring completion in that command...
>>
>> C-x 8 C-m *ANGLE TAB
>
> That helps, but ido (and friends) do completion based on words, while
> that will also get TRIANGLE, etc...

There is word-based ‘partial-completion’ in completion-styles-alist.





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* bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
  2019-07-09 20:16     ` Juri Linkov
@ 2019-07-09 21:55       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-09 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Juri Linkov; +Cc: 36554

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> That helps, but ido (and friends) do completion based on words, while
>> that will also get TRIANGLE, etc...
>
> There is word-based ‘partial-completion’ in completion-styles-alist.

Ah, right, so (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion basic emacs22))
gets me the method that I wanted.

Thanks!

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





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