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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:57:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fx8kjosa.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy6mck6ef.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:21:32 -0500")

>> And speaking about *Completions*, would it be possible to fill the
>> completions column-first, not row-first as it is now?  I find it quite
>> unreasonable, as the display is column-wise, but not so filling, making
>> it harder to quickly skim through the list.
>
> I'm not sure why you find it unreasonable, but I'd find it inconvenient
> when the list overflows the window, to have a column-first listing since
> I couldn't then first scroll to the interesting area.

It's easier to skim through a list when completions are sorted
vertically in columns down the screen.

That's what `ls' does by default for the list of files unless
`-x' (`--format=horizontal') is specified.  As well as readline
completions in bash unless `print-completions-horizontally' is `On'.

The same would be desirable in Emacs, but it has a problem -
if columns were sorted vertically, Isearch will still visit matches
horizontally.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-12  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11 19:45 completions - remove window after use? David Reitter
2009-11-11 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-11 21:26   ` Štěpán Němec
2009-11-11 23:21     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12  9:57       ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-11-12 10:09         ` Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) Deniz Dogan
2009-11-17 17:45           ` Vertical completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-18  8:11             ` martin rudalics
2009-11-18  9:59               ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-18  9:47             ` Backward completions (was: Vertical completions) Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 15:06               ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18 15:47                 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-18 19:02                   ` Backward completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 19:36                     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-19 17:36                       ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 17:58                         ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-19 18:24                         ` Drew Adams
2009-11-20  9:27                           ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 17:29                           ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 17:49                             ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-20 21:26                             ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18 15:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 19:01                 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 19:50               ` Backward completions (was: Vertical completions) Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 17:32                 ` Backward completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 18:29                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 18:36                     ` Drew Adams
2009-11-19 19:26                       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 19:30                         ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18  9:52             ` switch-to-completions (was: Vertical completions) Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 15:48               ` switch-to-completions Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 19:04                 ` switch-to-completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-19  1:12                   ` switch-to-completions Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 10:29         ` Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) Štěpán Němec
2009-11-12 19:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-12 22:00           ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-12 13:30       ` completions - remove window after use? Lluís
2009-11-12 14:40         ` David Reitter
2009-11-12 15:15         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-14  0:30           ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-12  3:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-11-12  8:19 ` martin rudalics
2009-11-12 22:36   ` Xavier Maillard

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