From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:18:48 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87wqj2jcw7.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> References: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <83ob5ee7ow.fsf@gnu.org> <87d2ltl2if.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8338moevm3.fsf@gnu.org> <8761rkaa5e.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87txf0390n.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87y53komex.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87haa8moh6.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <874n67n450.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87eh5bkxca.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87d2kuzzqj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87a9fylusq.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <878uvizrwz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8761qmkyn1.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <838uvicg2q.fsf@gnu.org> <871u1aktce.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <8338lqccnl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387387069 3673 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2013 17:17:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:17:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 18 18:17:55 2013 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 1VtKkt-0006xh-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:17:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VtKks-0004rI-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:17:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VtKkl-0004qW-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:17:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VtKkf-0006c7-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:17:46 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VtKkf-0006bt-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VtKkd-0006gt-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:17:39 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:17:39 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:17:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hTNxND8vYj7QKUmWqot8GcKk8AE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:166592 Archived-At: On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:05:50 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Ted Zlatanov >> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:38:09 -0500 >> >> >> * ESC or C-g should cancel the selection >> EZ> The ESC part is un-Emacsy: ESC is needed for meta characters, so it EZ> cannot be eaten. I suggest ESC ESC ESC instead, which is the accepted EZ> alternative to C-g in many other places. >> >> What meta characters make sense when you're selecting candidates from a >> list? EZ> E.g., many TTYs emit escape sequences from arrow keys. M-p and M-n EZ> also come to mind. And of course, Emacs users can customize keys, so EZ> any function one needs for browsing the candidates could potentially EZ> be bound to some meta character. Good points, I agree `ESC ESC ESC' is a better choice. Ted