From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BIKESHED: completion faces Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:25:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83d0e3g3vf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4c5631d4-9dfd-04c6-c573-b83c67fcc2fa@yandex.ru> <87pni7p83l.fsf@gmail.com> <87h83ipoi0.fsf@gmail.com> <3f7afc8e-b3d1-07a4-9350-3bfc5775ba21@yandex.ru> <87sgn1yl4b.fsf@gmail.com> <87bltp1eug.fsf@gmail.com> <87pni4adrc.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="230935"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 15:26:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iSijh-000xjz-ME for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:26:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43262 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSija-0002n5-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:26:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSijU-0002mu-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:25:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iSijT-0006KF-Cm; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:25:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1606 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iSijR-00047j-Tl; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:25:54 -0500 In-reply-to: <87pni4adrc.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:36:23 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241921 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:36:23 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel , > João Távora , > Stefan Monnier > > This screenshot demonstrates different completion styles: > https://www.chromestory.com/2018/05/omnibox-redesign/ > where "time" in the link from bookmark/history > is highlighted in bold for flex completion style, > but "time" in search results for prefix completion style > is not highlighted. Instead it highlights the remaining part > to help the user to continue typing the highlighted characters. IMO and IME, this UI is optimized for clicking on the match you fancy, not for continuing typing.