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From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
To: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: philipk@posteo.net
Subject: Re: master f6967d2 1/3: Allow for the completion buffer to be automatically selected
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:39:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yrga0oi.fsf@thornhill.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1sfulwmqp.fsf@yahoo.es>

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> I don't think I like this change to the minibuffer defaults.  It breaks
> muscle memory and IMO is more incovenient when you need to show the
> completion list many times.
>

Sorry for my ignorance, (and partly offtopic question) but why would you
want to show the completion list many times?  Isn't that very slow when
moving around files?

> One typical workflow I have is doing something like C-x C-f TAB TAB to
> see the list of completions and then continue typing to narrow the list
> of completions.  After this commit, you need to switch back to the
> minibuffer to continue completing things, which is annoying.
>

This feels very inefficient.  Wouldn't it be faster just having the
completion candidates open, then narrowing?  I have always found the
default emacs completion system very arcane, but I might be missing
something.

Theo



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-22 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m1sfulwmqp.fsf.ref@yahoo.es>
2021-12-21 23:40 ` master f6967d2 1/3: Allow for the completion buffer to be automatically selected Daniel Martín
2021-12-22  8:58   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-22  9:27     ` Po Lu
2021-12-22 11:07       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-22 17:59       ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-22  9:48     ` tomas
2021-12-22 13:48   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-12-22 17:45     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-22 20:02       ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-12-23  6:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-23 17:23         ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-23 18:44           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-22 19:39   ` Theodor Thornhill [this message]
2021-12-22 21:18     ` Daniel Martín
2021-12-22 21:30       ` Theodor Thornhill
2021-12-22 23:04       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-05-31 17:56         ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-03  8:57           ` Philip Kaludercic

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