From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Paul R' <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>, 'emacs- devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:12:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abk1e9qw.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003901c89a87$8f7cea90$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:20:39 -0700")
>> * Drew believe that the whole M-: should evolve to something more
>> like a interactive scratch in the context of current buffer, and
>> that if TAB does not complete in scratch, it should not complete in
>> M-:
>
> To be specific, I said this:
>
>> I would prefer to see M-: take on more of the
>> character of a pop-up emacs-lisp-mode buffer:
>> TAB, C-M-q, C-j,..., but with RET still causing
>> eval... And I'd like to see M-: pretty-print the
>> result (as in pp-eval-expression)
I think it would make sense to change M-: to use the same behavior
as M-! has, i.e. when the number of lines of the result is more than
some threshold then pop-up a buffer in another window with the result.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 17:30 Usability suggestion : completion for M-: paul r
2008-03-13 18:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-13 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-13 21:32 ` paul r
2008-03-13 21:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-13 23:32 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-13 23:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-21 5:21 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-14 8:52 ` paul r
2008-03-15 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-15 23:35 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-15 23:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 8:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 11:00 ` paul r
2008-03-16 11:21 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-03-16 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 12:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-16 8:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 12:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 13:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 10:56 ` paul r
2008-03-16 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 18:42 ` paul r
2008-03-16 19:56 ` Bastien
2008-03-16 20:22 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-03-17 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-17 4:07 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-17 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-17 9:32 ` paul r
2008-03-17 19:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-18 9:19 ` paul r
2008-03-19 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-19 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-19 18:16 ` paul r
2008-03-19 19:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 18:49 ` paul r
2008-03-16 12:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 20:06 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-03-22 21:14 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-23 2:30 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-23 5:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-09 20:42 ` Paul R
2008-04-09 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-10 23:12 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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