From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BIKESHED: completion faces Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:58:00 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87d0efgqon.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87ftjd6gbu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87blu18zsg.fsf@gmail.com> <87sgncqydt.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="121689"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_T=E1vora?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 29 23:08:01 2019 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 1iPZej-000VUn-3H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:08:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34390 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iPZeh-0005hg-Ux for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58949) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iPZd5-000494-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iPZd3-0000ob-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eastern.birch.relay.mailchannels.net ([23.83.209.55]:32266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iPZd3-0000me-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:06:17 -0400 X-Sender-Id: dreamhost|x-authsender|jurta@jurta.org Original-Received: from relay.mailchannels.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13723341045; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a20.g.dreamhost.com (100-96-38-238.trex.outbound.svc.cluster.local [100.96.38.238]) (Authenticated sender: dreamhost) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 98198341412; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:06:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: dreamhost|x-authsender|jurta@jurta.org Original-Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a20.g.dreamhost.com ([TEMPUNAVAIL]. [64.90.62.162]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:2500 (trex/5.18.5); Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:06:16 +0000 X-MC-Relay: Neutral X-MailChannels-SenderId: dreamhost|x-authsender|jurta@jurta.org X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: dreamhost X-Blushing-Abiding: 79aa14bf49fd93b7_1572386775863_2525479836 X-MC-Loop-Signature: 1572386775863:289256829 X-MC-Ingress-Time: 1572386775863 Original-Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a20.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a20.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357489CAEE; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:06:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=linkov.net; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=linkov.net; bh=BGkFxs7lXneuIFEr/jV9ClMehaQ=; b= UiFL03+MjSApXAiCPx4NTRFZ4ku4qJky5JTEPFL2BM4ZRsh3bE1GP/Z6cTrRA+zs vdMXqy+8HeuJ+aqF3h/QNcxULzuUe33dYH723DHzZ0aZ+ZpJbYVLXdJlEPuAdknF Rjmk2scoaGJILy3bnweLU0hKoXv6d/6hZr6RAezevWU= Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (m91-129-101-77.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.101.77]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jurta@jurta.org) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a20.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CBE459CAE6; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:06:06 -0700 (PDT) X-DH-BACKEND: pdx1-sub0-mail-a20 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:12:50 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 23.83.209.55 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:241600 Archived-At: >>>> bold in completions-first-difference helps to immediately see the >>>> next character to type to narrow completions further. >>> >>> Yes, but some questions, Juri: >>> * wouldn't any other face, say "underline", serve the same purpose? >> underline is less noticeable than bold, when used on a single character >> with completions-first-difference in the "basic" completion style. > > I kind of like the underline for first-difference because it is similar > to the underline used in some toolkit's menus to indicate which > key-shortcut to use to select this entry. Key-shortcuts in menus is a good analogy. So underline for completions-first-difference, and bold for completions-common-part would look really nice.