From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 11906@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11906: 24.1; completion-at-point failures
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 10:40:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1wqjho02m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A281AF.5030008@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Sat, 07 Dec 2013 04:02:23 +0200")
On 2013-12-07 10:02 +0800, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> It seems to me that `completion-at-point' isn't a good facility to
> complete space-separated lists of words or symbols (unlike, say,
> hippie-expand).
>
> Suppose it works, and you have candidates: "aa bb cc", "aa bd ee",
> "aabbc ef". You type "aa", press C-M-i, it completes to the common
> prefix: "aa b". Even if `completion-at-point' still remembers where
> the candidate started, what if you exit `completion-in-region-mode'
> via, say, cursor, movement, and then go back to after "aa b". When you
> press C-M-i again, what completion candidates would you expect to see?
> Not "aa bb cc" and "aa bd ee", right?
>
[snipped 9 lines]
> Could be good for some cases and users, but this prohibits the user
> from looking at the completions buffer and typing one of the
> candidates, manually (maybe a part of it, until it's unique).
>
> Hiding the completions buffer right after one character is typed can
> make it less useful.
These are good points. I think we need a new way for completion. Thanks
for your work and feel free to close this bug.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-07 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-11 5:54 bug#11906: 24.1; completion-at-point failures Leo
2012-07-12 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-10 6:38 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-10 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-11 1:50 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-11 3:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-11 4:47 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-11 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-13 1:28 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-13 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-14 0:56 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-14 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-14 3:30 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-11 20:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-11 23:11 ` Daimrod
2013-05-13 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-21 23:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-22 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-05 3:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-05 4:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-06 1:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-06 4:00 ` Leo Liu
2013-12-06 4:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-06 5:36 ` Leo Liu
2013-12-06 13:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-06 14:04 ` Leo Liu
2013-12-06 17:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-07 2:05 ` Leo Liu
2013-12-07 22:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-06 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-07 2:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-07 2:40 ` Leo Liu [this message]
2013-12-07 16:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-09 2:27 ` Leo Liu
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