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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Rahguzar <rahguzar@zohomail.eu>
Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	mardani29@yahoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Alternative UI for reading multiple choices (was: Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names?)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:09:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzhmiiam.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ikx7ra2i.fsf@zohomail.eu>

Rahguzar <rahguzar@zohomail.eu> writes:

>> The main problem is that it is not built-in, and I would like to get
>> something in the core to cater multi-file prompts.
>
> I would like that too, and if something like that is in the core I will
> change current implementation to depend on it. I am also happy to try to
> upstream the code if that is considered desirable.

Let's change the subject then.
Eli favours a completely different approach for selecting files in
particular, but improving `completing-read-multiple' is also worth
discussing:

- Built-in `completing-read-multiple' works fine using its idea with
  separators, but it is a pain to remove previously selected choices,
  especially long and complex ones.
   
- filechooser implements an alternative way to read multiple choices by
  showing them as additional completion group on top of the normal
  completions

- This is conceptually similar to icicles, except that the highlights in
  icicles may work not as good when the number of completion candidates
  is too large. I feel that visual indication in a separate group is
  better, except when all possible completions can fit within
  *completions* buffer window

- As we discussed with Drew, the problem with not having all the
  completions listed in the minibuffer (like in
  `completing-read-multiple') is that it does not get stored in the
  minibuffer history. And it would be nice to have access to such
  history for multiple choice prompt.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-15 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-13 16:28 Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names? Rahguzar
2024-07-14 12:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-14 20:29   ` Rahguzar
2024-07-15 19:09     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-07-15 20:02       ` [External] : Alternative UI for reading multiple choices (was: Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names?) Drew Adams
2024-07-15 19:12     ` ELPA package: filechooser " Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-16  8:59       ` ELPA package: filechooser Rahguzar

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