From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Cubitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:54:28 +0000 Message-ID: <20140106155428.GA8618@c3po> References: Reply-To: Toby Cubitt NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389023783 8980 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 15:56:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 16:56:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0CXJ-00016v-TX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:56:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0CXJ-0008F7-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49829) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0CXC-0008Eq-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:56:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0CX8-0007TH-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:56:10 -0500 Original-Received: from starfish.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.166]:28659) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0CX7-0007TD-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 1901 invoked by uid 1003); 6 Jan 2014 15:56:05 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.geekisp.com [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.geekisp.com (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:56:02 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.dr-qubit.org/gpg-toby-pub.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.11 (Ladyburn) X-Primary-Address: toby@dr-qubit.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: OpenBSD 4.x-5.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 216.168.135.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167476 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 09:47:49AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Extending the company API or the completion-ui API to handle things > >> like filename completion (including the issues linked to handling > >> quoting/unquoting) is far from obvious, > > What's the roadblock here? I don't see it. > > I know. That's why it's non-obvious. Witty, but not very illuminating! If you say it would be tough to support filename completion (I assume we're talking minibuffer filename completion here?), I of course trust your judgement. But I'd be interested to understand why. Any pointers? Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Royal Society University Research Fellow and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge Centre for Quantum Information DAMTP, University of Cambridge email: tsc25@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org