From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: UI inconveniences with M-. Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:17:47 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2wuucwk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zja6b3tc.fsf@gnu.org> <54A24079.4020902@yandex.ru> <54A2FF47.6010207@yandex.ru> <54A86135.7080004@yandex.ru> <54A90002.7080009@gmx.at> <54A9C3FB.7000602@yandex.ru> <54AA3881.3080304@gmx.at> <54ABBB47.7010603@yandex.ru> <837fszx7iy.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3r5wqwv.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2wxwexb.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv7kwbow.fsf@gnu.org> <837fsvuefq.fsf@gnu.org> <5540FF87.3000903@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430324305 27688 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2015 16:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 18:18:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YnUga-0007n2-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:18:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnUga-0008JY-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53218) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnUgO-0008He-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnUgK-000257-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:51987) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnUgK-00024w-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NNK00200T0ISU00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:17:51 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NNK002AAT9QQ260@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:17:51 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5540FF87.3000903@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186026 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:57:59 +0300 > > On 04/29/2015 06:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > It depends on which one is closer to the correct result, obviously. > > If 100 is closer, fix or rewrite (or throw away) the back-end that > > returns only 1; if 1 is closer, filter the 100 results to return less > > than 10. > > > > But having 2 orders of magnitude difference between the results > > _by_default_ is absolutely insane! > > How would a UI deal with that? I don't know yet. For now, I'm having hard time getting you-all to agree that this needs to be fixed, and fixed soon. Are we there yet?