From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:09:33 +0100 Message-ID: <7b501d5c0911120209x7c8f493fm68fadef6f1311206@mail.gmail.com> References: <61C01A08-8FB6-4908-B9F1-B9F1CE3E3D92@gmail.com> <20091111212658.GD12012@headley> <87fx8kjosa.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258020616 26941 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2009 10:10:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 12 11:10:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8Wcx-0002hx-J6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:10:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8Wcw-00005N-Vb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8Wco-0008Ux-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8Wcn-0008Ta-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58072 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8Wcm-0008Rn-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:09:56 -0500 Original-Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.149]:12089) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8Wck-0007Hm-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:09:55 -0500 Original-Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 3so509279eyh.34 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:09:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=PKGYrkFwRj9Qs+q1KanUBbSitzmKgjcY/mqAM8WxSuI=; b=fo/Y7MEiwjHMjhNvAgUulBpxp7P/yLiJyRmQWGq3S1obV0KBv/6GOYcIisCAqjDH57 FEbBYxCX5LILOWB5TPQLKF8ZjIKE3rmGlGun98bhvrhYyClpbqfkMCuzfycfrbmI7AIO GganVrNuix03EmJv860a9deOBHSJtAFR+oPZ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jcy11XgoAmM+VLPo3SkcdMcI/o18YGZIVaRfSF+T9kqfbLis23tTqmayS/pDVMoR9F TDSb7SkcVs9vgK9j3uBw17FEk2hwa6uWYmftk6DoKL6boSmvn0xKrv0Fedwu2nfAOMUT 7rWYNZff57gSXAml49RwoPHMhZ5yzPR3EkhGo= Original-Received: by 10.213.24.2 with SMTP id t2mr726658ebb.23.1258020593112; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:09:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87fx8kjosa.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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: , 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:116872 Archived-At: 2009/11/12 Juri Linkov : >>> And speaking about *Completions*, would it be possible to fill the >>> completions column-first, not row-first as it is now? =A0I find it quit= e >>> 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=3Dhorizontal') is specified. =A0As 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. > > -- > Juri Linkov > http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ > > > If it's not too problematic to implement, I'm all for the change (or rather an option to have it). --=20 Deniz Dogan