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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116874 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Juri Linkov wrote: > >> And speaking about *Completions*, would it be possible to fill the > >> completions column-first, not row-first as it is now? I find it quite > >> unreasonable, as the display is column-wise, but not so filling, making > >> it harder to quickly skim through the list. > > > > I'm not sure why you find it unreasonable, but I'd find it inconvenient > > when the list overflows the window, to have a column-first listing since > > I couldn't then first scroll to the interesting area. > > It's easier to skim through a list when completions are sorted > vertically in columns down the screen. > > That's what `ls' does by default for the list of files unless > `-x' (`--format=horizontal') is specified. As well as readline > completions in bash unless `print-completions-horizontally' is `On'. > > The same would be desirable in Emacs, but it has a problem - > if columns were sorted vertically, Isearch will still visit matches > horizontally. I wouldn't really see that as a problem -- it's quite expectable; I think it could be actually rather confusing if the search would go in columns, too -- after all, the columns are just how the text is displayed, there is no "real" boundary between them.