From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making completion more interactive Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:46:50 +0900 Message-ID: <87lhmehh6d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87egs7b5h4.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418276861 2932 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 05:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 06:47:30 2014 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 1Xywb1-0006qm-Vf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:47:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xywb1-0007w0-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:47:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xywah-0007vr-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XywaZ-00076R-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:47:07 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:36169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XywaY-00075s-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:46:58 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 929F81C38A4; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:46:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 79F261A2CFC; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:46:50 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:179722 Archived-At: Tom writes: > I think most people like this behavior. I don't. And equating "most people" with "most Emacs users" is a big mistake. IMO, it's OK as a default, but there *must* be a way to turn it off. > Yes, I know about them. My suggestion is about making the > default completion more modern. I hope you're aware that describing a behavior as "modern" on this list predisposes many of us to consider it a bad idea. Just give real reasons (like "most people like it").