From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about completion behavior Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 19:44:49 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86pmmpahdm.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <83tuc7e066.fsf@gnu.org> <87y21ji6ht.fsf@yahoo.com> <87lexiiqnk.fsf@yahoo.com> <20220310102157.wmmn7bkkdbux7aug@Ergus> <8735jqhxdr.fsf@yahoo.com> <20220310140331.xa53sex6wywkr56l@Ergus> <86ee39r69o.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <20220312001752.stzknhydiep6nsxn@Ergus> <8635jn81wt.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <20220313112108.j3lvtnvgybo7em65@Ergus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17327"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Po Lu , Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ergus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 19:14:54 2022 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 1nTSk2-0004LG-F7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2022 19:14:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43238 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nTSk1-0000Zb-DN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:14:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nTSis-0007d6-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:4b98:dc4:8::227] (port=43067 helo=relay7-d.mail.gandi.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nTSiq-0001FG-E6; Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A68820005; Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:13:33 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20220313112108.j3lvtnvgybo7em65@Ergus> (Ergus's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:21:08 +0100") X-Host-Lookup-Failed: Reverse DNS lookup failed for 2001:4b98:dc4:8::227 (failed) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:4b98:dc4:8::227; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay7-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -10 X-Spam_score: -1.1 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:287079 Archived-At: >> Maybe better to have the whole string with all text properties >> as the default value of 'completion-header-text-property-list' >> that then could be renamed to e.g. 'completion-header-string'? >> > I don't know a simple way for creating a string with the properties in a > single call. We may need a sort of wrapper function that initializes > the string and call set properties in a single call otherwise the user > may need to do it manually... Something like: > > (defun make-text-with-properties (string properties) > (let ((out string)) > (set-text-properties ...) > out)) > > Any better idea? Something like (defvar completion-header-format (propertize "%s possible completions:" 'face 'shadow :help "Please select a completion") "Format of completion header.") > The other detail is that there are 2 strings: "Possible completions are" > and "There are no possible completions of what you have typed." In case of no completions it will be formatted to: "0 possible completions". >> Regarding 'completion-lazy-count': it would be even better to allow >> customization of this format like in 'icomplete-matches-format' >> that was recently added in 28.1. >> > Probably the best is to join the two variables in > completion-header-string and allow it to have a %s for a count... I will > go in that way. > > Is it OK? It's OK, like above.