From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emphasize the character to be typed next in *Completions* Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:48:31 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <405EB66F.8000600@math.ku.dk> References: <20040322053942.03A2467DC4@imf.math.ku.dk> <405EB27E.6020904@math.ku.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079949095 18633 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 09:51:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 10:51:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5M5g-0003br-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:51:28 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5M5f-0002Nl-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:51:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5M4X-00073P-Mi for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:50:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5M4Q-00072v-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:50:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5M3t-0006jo-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:50:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.225.103.32] (helo=imf.math.ku.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5M3s-0006je-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: by imf.math.ku.dk (Postfix, from userid 73) id D060568086; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:49:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from imf (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spamwall (Postfix) with ESMTP id D514B67CC3 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:49:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by imf.math.ku.dk (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:49:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from math.ku.dk (pc33.math.ku.dk [10.2.1.33]) by imf.math.ku.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D05262479 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:48:32 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: da, en-us, en Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <405EB27E.6020904@math.ku.dk> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20719 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20719 Lars Hansen wrote: > Emacs should tell the user what Emacs does know: Which possible > completions are found so far. > I didn't get it right the first time: Emacs should tell the user what Emacs does know: *Why* there are more possible completions: Because they all match. That can be done by highlighting the match like incremental search do.