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: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:29:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83y2dbpmw1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9c9af088-580f-9fb1-4d79-237a74ce605c@inventati.org> <874kgkxxs0.fsf@posteo.net> <87blamp5hy.fsf@posteo.net> <87h7k0c7tz.fsf@posteo.net> <83a6psq932.fsf@gnu.org> <87im4gaq63.fsf@posteo.net> <838s5brgom.fsf@gnu.org> <87a6prby4n.fsf@posteo.net> <831rb3rds9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26639"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 21 19:30:22 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 1lZGgA-0006pT-Ke for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58694 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZGg8-0000LX-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZGf5-00086d-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60413) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lZGf5-0000Rw-Eg; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1346 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lZGf3-0007Pp-Ey; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:29:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:43:28 +0700) 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:268243 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:43:28 +0700 > Cc: Philip Kaludercic , Emacs developers > > > What is the semantics of selecting an object that has children? Can > > you give an example of such use case with one of the UIs we have today > > that supports completion? > > Choosing a directory or a mail folder comes to mind. One occasionally > wants to say “I want to install this program into this directory, even > though it has subdirectories” or “I want to set up my filter to move > mail into this folder, even though it has subfolders”. That's easy to support with menus: just doesn't create the submenu unless the user says so with some mouse gesture, like pressing some modifier key when clicking on a menu item.