From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: icomplete-mode vs. iswitchb Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:31:25 +0200 Message-ID: <52AA7F8D.1030301@yandex.ru> References: <871u1iuuel.fsf@yandex.ru> <878uvpxydi.fsf@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386905503 15000 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2013 03:31:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 03:31:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Eglen , chad , Emacs-Devel devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 13 04:31:49 2013 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 1VrJTg-0001La-Kp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 04:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrJTg-0006Vp-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:31:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrJTV-0006Iu-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:31:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrJTN-0005Ua-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ea0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c01::233]:49345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrJTN-0005UU-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:31:29 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ea0-f179.google.com with SMTP id r15so609379ead.10 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:31:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Sy6UckwCiocQZiqN3kcfEsJSaS70qwPgA3F0A96Px0k=; b=ANRIv2Sn1sRI6jESy54Ov1X4lXj92WsjL6zrIm/fexwqNTzsOYfxhUwVH1QNcVgfRW Fv/vthNv/nDkwhLVj4BKpqwe+O1lO4yRtn26xsq2uMgCuG35DY8ZwTH91Ar6pRJr2xhR I1dutmPGrFbYjHCVTl99rQULDerCKbWpv0bfI56X1xEm54h2bXJ+hzSWS4iX7qNUa+QW Md1IAdolrpoFuymvT8VQy3W1evz0ICxAP01zf3AI1lTaoTp8StVGs3B73q+nNEO+zqKn jRtKdaBNp2lATPRKcRi7S4c6akQ65N+mKBoHMIvIxgeA7VQlXXpyFLFPFzovyd7k60Si K9pw== X-Received: by 10.15.90.196 with SMTP id q44mr157124eez.113.1386905488061; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:31:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.10.2] (213-241-09.netrun.cytanet.com.cy. [213.7.241.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id v1sm1780095eef.9.2013.12.12.19.31.26 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:31:27 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c01::233 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:166363 Archived-At: On 13.12.2013 04:56, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> icomplete is less obtrusive, but ido is definitely more efficient, with >> its non-prefix and flex matching. > > icomplete uses completion-styles, so it also has substring matching. > Currently, noone has ported ido's flex matching to completion-styles, > tho, indeed. > >> And, in order to not have to bother with C-j for items not present in >> the existing set, with icomplete you always have type or press Tab to >> get to the desired item, maybe several times, even if the item is the >> first in the list. > > icomplete-mode now has C-j to "select the first element", so you don't > need to press TAB or type anything to get to it. Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the clarifications.