From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Felipe Ochoa <felipe.nospam.ochoa@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Disabling imenu default of thing-at-point
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:43:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-9c-g8e+AYA+Rp12DpfGeHjy3WAe6kGocQ=Xm+_3Vyong@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a97ac0a6-d932-49a9-8eb3-cebe52f01c2e@default>
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> imenu currently uses (thing-at-point 'symbol) to offer a default in
>> completing read. It's very helpful when symbol at point is one of the
>> options, but not really useful when not. It's particularly inconvenient
>> when using ido for completing read (e.g., with ido-ubiquitous), since it
>> makes M-x imenu RET not do anything instead of jumping to the first
>> option.
>
> Sounds like Ido (or Ido Ubiquitous) needs to be fixed. There
> should not be a problem with providing a default value, even
> when that default value might not always be helpful.
You can press C-j instead of RET at an ido to prompt to return only
what you've explicitly typed (i.e., without any completion to default
automagic).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-24 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-24 17:10 Disabling imenu default of thing-at-point Felipe Ochoa
2017-07-24 17:39 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-24 17:43 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
[not found] ` <CAHp7JggMsvE-A4GL2L1MdEceN4nnR9n3RGYjzpNgF2Zk1TRcjA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-07-25 9:01 ` Felipe Ochoa
[not found] ` <CAHp7JgjpdXfqwhO+PcVqAFGMT8Sy271sRgDGQt6_eWTYnSiFaQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-07-25 9:05 ` Felipe Ochoa
2017-07-25 9:13 ` Felipe Ochoa
2017-07-25 9:21 ` Felipe Ochoa
2017-08-03 8:35 ` Felipe Ochoa
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