From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fast completion with visible cue?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:22:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u0ulujdp.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408300310.i7U3A7GK016226@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:10:05 -0700")
Dan Nicolaescu <dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> writes:
> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> > Using M-r and M-s for minibuffer history search is not too convenient:
> > switching keys `M-r RET M-r RET M-r RET ...' is not as fast as using
> > only one key to repeat the search for the same string.
>
> IMHO the way readline (and implicitly bash) implement incremental
> history search (bound to C-r/C-s) is great from a UI point of
> view. And that UI has been in use for a long time.
> It would be great to have something similar in emacs.
>
> [I am not quite sure how similar is your proposal to readline, if
> it is, it would be nice to have].
What I described is very similar to how shell history search works.
Actually, I use it all the time and like to implement a similar feature
in Emacs. I am not yet quite sure about keybindings, but perhaps
both pairs C-r/C-s and C-M-r/ C-M-s are ok.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-30 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 22:37 Fast completion with visible cue? Simon Josefsson
2004-08-26 22:44 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-26 23:13 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-08-27 3:51 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-27 8:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-27 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-27 13:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-26 23:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-26 23:13 ` Miles Bader
2004-08-29 20:29 ` Juri Linkov
2004-08-30 3:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2004-08-30 8:22 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-08-27 6:33 ` Jan D.
2004-08-27 10:16 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-08-27 7:29 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-27 10:07 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-08-27 10:33 ` Kim F. Storm
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