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: Select completions from the minibuffer Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:55:19 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86r1773sb4.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <86v8wlprc0.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <874k454n84.fsf@gnus.org> <86ilslmvql.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87v8wl35wg.fsf@gnus.org> <86k0d06dik.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87ee3714li.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34796"; 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: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 20:16:43 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 1nT7EJ-0008ty-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:16:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37420 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nT7EI-0008Kh-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:16:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nT7BN-0003bU-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:13:41 -0500 Original-Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.199]:39759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nT7BL-0005Ey-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:13:41 -0500 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 634A0FF802; Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:13:37 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87ee3714li.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 12 Mar 2022 18:08:09 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.199; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay9-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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:287048 Archived-At: >> Oh, this is bug#34517 and bug#49931. So we need to finish fixing this now. > > Ah -- I've also seen that weird behaviour sometimes, but never pinned > down why it's happening. > > I think clicking something in *Completions* should select that, and > ignore what the user has (probably accidentally) typed into the > minibuffer after TAB-ing. (Perhaps with a user option?) I posted a patch to bug#49931 that adds a new user option. Maybe it could be enabled by default? >>> Perhaps it should also highlight the current choice in the >>> *Completions* buffer? It moves point in the buffer, but that's a >>> too-subtle hint, I think. >> >> Ergus already added completions-highlight-mode >> in the feature/completions-customs branch. >> But maybe it could enabled by default? > > Or perhaps `M-' etc should enable it? `M-' in bug#49931 let-binds the new user option, so it could let-bind completions-highlight-mode as well.