From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fast completion with visible cue? Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:13:46 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040826231346.GB15154@fencepost> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093562079 24227 80.91.224.253 (26 Aug 2004 23:14:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Simon Josefsson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 01:14:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0TRt-0008Eq-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:14:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0TWX-000098-Al for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:19:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0TWP-00008W-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0TWO-000085-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0TWN-00007o-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0TRD-0003F5-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C0TRC-0005Wb-UT; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:13:47 -0400 Original-To: Andreas Schwab Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26548 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26548 On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:06:22AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Find File: ~/pro[CURSOR]ects/src/foo/doc/drafts/template/help.txt > > > > where CURSOR isn't shown verbatim, but indicate where the cursor is, > > and the latter part of the string is displayed in a light gray color > > but the earlier part of the string is in black. > > What about previous-complete-history-element? Yup; I've got that bound to "M-[" in the minibuffer, and it rocks. For cases where you want to recall something "by (non-prefix) name" just using minibuffer history search (M-r) is also very useful. -Miles -- P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false, for reasons of military security.