From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jeremyb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs should provide more modern item completion out of the box Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 22:37:37 +0000 Message-ID: <871rsgb1zi.fsf@jeremybryant.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="174143"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.3 Cc: ndame , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , Dmitry Gutov To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 23:38:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1inVar-000ika-Ra for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 23:38:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57504 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1inVaT-0007e0-Rv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 17:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33016) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1inVa2-0007E5-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 17:38:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1inVZz-0001YE-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 17:38:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailex.mailcore.me ([94.136.40.141]:41984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1inVZg-0001J7-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 17:38:03 -0500 Original-Received: from host86-170-121-246.range86-170.btcentralplus.com ([86.170.121.246] helo=hexa2.local.com) by smtp03.mailcore.me with esmtpa (Exim 4.92.3) (envelope-from ) id 1inVZa-0008SV-RO; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 22:37:41 +0000 In-reply-to: X-Mailcore-Auth: 278589627 X-Mailcore-Domain: 1689493 X-KLMS-Rule-ID: 1 X-KLMS-Message-Action: clean X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Status: not scanned, license restriction X-KLMS-AntiPhishing: not scanned, license restriction X-KLMS-AntiVirus: Kaspersky Security 8.0 for Linux Mail Server, version 8.0.1.721, bases: 2020/01/03 13:25:00 #11209787 X-KLMS-AntiVirus-Status: Clean, skipped X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 94.136.40.141 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:243901 Archived-At: Andrea For this, > This is extremely helpful for learning new Emacs key bindings with > almost no effort. you also have which-key-mode Andrea Corallo writes: > Dmitry Gutov writes: > >> Hi! >> >> On 02.01.2020 15:44, ndame wrote: >>> Do you agree that Emacs could benefit from such a modern completion >>> system (for M-x, etc.) by providing a more attractive out of the box >>> experience? >> >> There are several. >> >> For M-x, the easiest one to try out is 'M-x icomplete-mode'. Turn it >> on and see how you like the new 'M-x' experience. >> >> And when Emacs 27 comes out, or if you can install a recent snapshot, >> try out 'M-x fido-mode'. It's a somewhat tweaked version of the >> former. > > Hi, in my opinion despite completion the other feature that is really > killer in helm-M-x is that it suggests the key bindings associated with > the listed commands. > > This is extremely helpful for learning new Emacs key bindings with > almost no effort. > > Is there a way to have that with fido-mode or icomplete-mode? > > Thanks > > Andrea