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: Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:26:04 +0200 Message-ID: <83ljibo88j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <61C01A08-8FB6-4908-B9F1-B9F1CE3E3D92@gmail.com> <20091111212658.GD12012@headley> <87fx8kjosa.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258054137 12171 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2009 19:28:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:28:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 12 20:28:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8fLd-0006ga-AZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:28:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8fLc-0002Ms-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8fLX-0002Mc-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8fLS-0002Jh-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56747 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8fLS-0002Je-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58288) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8fLS-0002PJ-1d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KT000000FO4ZD00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:28:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KT0001AFGQN2630@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:28:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87fx8kjosa.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116903 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:57:33 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > It's easier to skim through a list when completions are sorted > vertically in columns down the screen. "Easier" is in the eyes of the beholder, I think. I find the horizontal arrangement much more friendly. > That's what `ls' does by default for the list of files unless > `-x' (`--format=horizontal') is specified. Right, which is why I always alias `ls' to "ls -x". > The same would be desirable in Emacs, but it has a problem - > if columns were sorted vertically, Isearch will still visit matches > horizontally. I don't see any reason for such a change, certainly not to change the order of Isearch on top of that.