From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vertical fido-mode Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 01:51:58 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87y2okm1gx.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <1704199899.1577092.1591806438580.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1704199899.1577092.1591806438580@mail.yahoo.com> <13ec44ed-4b54-8d43-590f-709bd813fd01@yandex.ru> <795146083.1708851.1591826041689@mail.yahoo.com> <87y2ouldrr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <52efa3bf-1efc-81d5-9c2d-4aefbfa5db5d@yandex.ru> <20200611132234.nbluayofcxh23cwg@ergus> <877dw5cqgb.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <4967aca0-5827-1ab9-dd13-65c50b060f05@yandex.ru> <877dw5badz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <64474704-e58f-f4cf-88f1-63d26f8e2f3b@yandex.ru> <877dw4qbuu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="119565"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Ergus , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , "monnier@iro.umontreal.ca" , Dmitry Gutov To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_T=E1vora?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 19 00:54:26 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jm3QP-000Uym-8R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:54:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56426 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jm3QO-0006uM-Ao for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jm3Pv-0005u6-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from relay8-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.201]:49787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jm3Pt-0003a3-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:53:55 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.108.6 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-108-6.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.108.6]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay8-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6C0D1BF206; Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:53:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Jo=E3o_T=E1vora=22's?= message of "Thu, 18 Jun 2020 23:41:18 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.201; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay8-d.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/18 18:36:32 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252331 Archived-At: >> >> Or maybe it's possible to navigate history using completion lists? >> > >> > I'm not sure how that would look. >> >> Currently completion is performed on a set of all possible values. >> In addition to this, completion could be performed on a set of >> all previously entered values (history items), or on default items >> (a list of the most useful values). This shows all 3 possibilities: >> >> (completing-read "Prompt: " >> minibuffer-history nil nil nil >> 'minibuffer-history >> minibuffer-history) >> >> M-n - defaults list, M-p - history list, TAB - completion on history list. >> >> In a normal minibuffer maybe there should be a key to switch between >> normal completion, completion on defaults, and completion on history. >> Also maybe another key to sort history items by recency/frequency >> in the completion list. > > I think, you are starting to describe incremental reverse history search, > or C-r in normal minibuffers. It works in icomplete, too, but not too > well in my opinion. Still, it's better to fix that than to reinvent the wheel. Actually I meant displaying a list of completions (no matter whether in the *Completions* buffer or inline like in icomplete) based on different sets of input data (on all possible values like default completion, or on all history items...)