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: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 16:10:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83im4u5lq7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9c9af088-580f-9fb1-4d79-237a74ce605c@inventati.org> <874kgkxxs0.fsf@posteo.net> <78741fe6-2612-d7c9-2bc4-0b68ea7fa51a@yandex.ru> <76a4d0e2-117b-165d-d56e-5bc2f504b50c@yandex.ru> <87blapln0r.fsf@posteo.net> <37bd2e96-ce04-eb6d-24da-fdd7ea427e61@yandex.ru> <87im4wx2ct.fsf@posteo.net> <83ft0080hi.fsf@gnu.org> <16784f40-b959-9a84-65d4-93b71d1bebec@yandex.ru> <837dla7ghj.fsf@gnu.org> <83o8em5rdt.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17894"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 10 15:13:02 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 1lVDQ6-0004Wr-Kc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:13:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52898 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVDQ5-0003kQ-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53408) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVDNk-0002KV-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVDNi-0000sN-To; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3487 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lVDNd-0006eT-TZ; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:10:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:43:16 +0300) 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:267813 Archived-At: > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:43:16 +0300 > > We're talking about the second completion prompt, when you have picked > an identifier to navigate to, but there are multiple matching locations > to jump to. > > Right now you see an *xref* buffer in such situation, but > xref-show-definitions-completing-read uses completing-read (a second > time) instead. That could also be a large list, e.g. if I typed the name of a large class. What is worse, the completion candidates are displayed in a format very different from the one I saw before typing RET. It's almost as if the completion method was switched under my feet. Very confusing.