From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [friedman@splode.com: some other observations on pcomplete] Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:53:09 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87664335i2.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <200203102132.g2ALWfr04155@wijiji.santafe.edu> <87it8339co.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1015833295 22804 80.91.224.249 (11 Mar 2002 07:54:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kKdz-0005vh-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:54:55 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16kKfb-0007OS-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:56:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kKdL-0004De-00; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kKcL-0004Ch-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:53:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.152] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b8) with ESMTP-TLS id 1828500 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:40:22 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16kKcH-0003Br-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 00:53:09 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "11 Mar 2002 15:48:56 +0900") Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:1848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1848 >>>>> On Sun Mar 10, Miles writes: > For instance, how about if, when in `cycling mode', pcomplete were > to display a note saying how many more completions there are left to > cycle through. Then you would know that it's cycling, and wouldn't > think that there's only one completion. > It could either display these messages in the minibuffer, or perhaps > as a temporary `tag' following the completed entry like completion > in the minibuffer does, e.g.: Hey, I like that minibuffer idea. I'll have to try it out. Should be very cheap to implement. John _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel