From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: on helm substantial differences Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:24:33 +0200 Message-ID: <833618sm1a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnymda5g.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6vhth3z.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh3h2fx9.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22171"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, bugs@gnu.support, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 04:25:28 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kercV-0005dt-NF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:25:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45602 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kercU-0007KZ-Q3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kerbo-0006XH-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:24:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kerbk-0007fq-5A; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3856 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kerbj-00041I-C7; Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:24:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zh3h2fx9.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:41:06 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259270 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, bugs@gnu.support, ghe@sdf.org, > spacibba@aol.com, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca > Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:41:06 +0200 > > > This will have to be an opt-in feature. It presents completion > > candidates in such a radically different form that people will be > > confused; I would be. We cannot change the default behavior so > > radically, and on top of that make the display different in each mode. > > Like there are already possible choices 'horizontal' and 'vertical' > in the user option 'completions-format', it could also support > a new choice like 'rich'. That'd be fine, I think. But we should try to come up with a name that is more descriptive, for example 'mode-specific' or something, to make it more explicit that this is not just about arranging the candidates on display.