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: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:00:09 +0300 Message-ID: <838s5brgom.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9c9af088-580f-9fb1-4d79-237a74ce605c@inventati.org> <874kgkxxs0.fsf@posteo.net> <87blamp5hy.fsf@posteo.net> <87h7k0c7tz.fsf@posteo.net> <83a6psq932.fsf@gnu.org> <87im4gaq63.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15766"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 21 14:01:35 2021 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 1lZBXy-0003od-Mt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:01:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36114 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZBXx-0007Cw-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZBWx-0006iB-V3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:00:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZBWu-0002iJ-Vq; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1135 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lZBWo-0004Zu-W7; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:00:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87im4gaq63.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:27:16 +0000) 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:268228 Archived-At: > From: Philip Kaludercic > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:27:16 +0000 > > > It looks like this only supports displaying selection lists and > > interacting with users via buffers? If so, I think we should also > > support doing that via GUI dialogs (in Emacs configurations that > > support dialogs, which nowadays means almost every build). This is > > what many other applications do, so I think we had better did the > > same, at least as an option. > > > > Of course, selections via dialogs not always make sense, so this > > should be one of the possible UIs we support, not the only one. > > Ideally yes, but is it possible to have a menu that can be both selected > and expanded? I don't think I understand what you mean by "expanded" here. There are submenus, if that's what you meant.