From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:52:30 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <878uwi8t3r.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <877gc5fm30.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87k3g47m7b.fsf@yandex.ru> <528B6F11.7070607@yandex.ru> <87y54ke8v3.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87li0kdrsz.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384996296 28722 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2013 01:11:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel To: Josh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 02:11:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjIo0-0001II-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:11:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57903 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjIo0-0004UP-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjInq-0004Rk-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:11:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjInk-0006av-Ud for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:11:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhost.com ([69.163.218.105]:44512 helo=ps18281.dreamhostps.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjInk-0006am-Nz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.jurta.org (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DEA258B9E935; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:11:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (josh@foxtail.org's message of "Wed, 20 Nov 2013 07:57:35 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 69.163.218.105 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165461 Archived-At: > Many people access `previous-history-element' in the minibuffer through > the up arrow, so I hope it is not commandeered for this purpose. Instead, > what about entering the mode from the minibuffer via C-f and right arrow, > but only when the point is at the minibuffer's point-max (i.e. when > `forward-char' would currently complain "End of buffer")? Besides being > less disruptive for users than changing the behavior of , using > C-f/ for this purpose has the mnemonic benefit of suggesting > "go beyond what I've typed". WDYT? The web browsers solve this problem by combining completions for history and suggestions in the same list (separated by a horizontal line). With history elements displayed in the *Completions* buffer you can use the same up and down arrows to access them.