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 16:19:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83eeyjg45r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <> <> <> <<4c5631d4-9dfd-04c6-c573-b83c67fcc2fa@yandex.ru>> <> <> <<87pni7p83l.fsf@gmail.com>> <> <> <<83h83ignrz.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <<83ftj2gma8.fsf@gnu.org>> <<87zhhaxalt.fsf@gmail.com>> <<83bltpgffr.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <<83tv7gg9oz.fsf@gnu.org>> <<7916c845-1ce2-4abd-937f-09036cd60bec@default>> <<83pni4g2iq.fsf@gnu.org>> <5e0c941c-e625-4e42-87b3-91a5a1a1f38f@default> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="203834"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, joaotavora@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 15:20:11 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 1iSidv-000qtz-Jz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:20:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43152 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSidu-00057g-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iSidU-00055K-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:20:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iSidU-0008CH-4t; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:19:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1116 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iSidS-0003Pi-IB; Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:19:42 -0500 In-reply-to: <5e0c941c-e625-4e42-87b3-91a5a1a1f38f@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:40:41 -0800 (PST)) 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:241920 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:40:41 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > dgutov@yandex.ru > > If you care about the set of candidates as a > whole, and are not just trying to "find the > one", or if you're interested in redefining > that set (including possibly narrowing it), > then "what exactly matched" your input can > be very helpful info. These tasks are rare, at least IME, so changing the presentation of the candidates _by_default_ to cater to them is IMO too radical. However, we could have a completion command to add/remove indications of the matches, for when people want to perform these tasks.