From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: completion-auto-help
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:39:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICAEKJCOAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICMEKHCOAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
I wrote:
Some people might find the automatic list updating to be distracting
(I find it very helpful, personally).
Correction - I find it very helpful, provided I want to see the
*Completions* list at all. If *Completions* is automatically displayed from
the outset, and updated at each keystroke, that can be distracting in some
contexts and helpful in others.
I mentioned two optional auto-update behaviors in Icicles:
non-nil means update *Completions* incrementally, as you type.
t means do nothing if *Completions* is not already displayed.
non-nil and non-t means display *Completions* and update it.
It is the `t' behavior that I find very helpful. I find the non-nil, non-t
behavior distracting, depending on the size of the alist for
completing-read. With a large alist, auto-update as soon as you start typing
something can lead to massive update changes in *Completions*.
I'm still requesting a way to display *Completions* from the beginning, but
I would use that only in particular contexts - for example, when the list of
candidates is relatively small (*Completions* is treated as a menu), in
which case, auto-update is not distracting. Otherwise I would use it without
auto-update.
That's why I'd like to keep the two (display *Completions* initially and
auto-update it) as separate options.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-11 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-11 1:30 completion-auto-help Drew Adams
2005-11-11 4:55 ` completion-auto-help Stefan Monnier
2005-11-11 17:47 ` completion-auto-help Drew Adams
2005-11-11 18:39 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2005-11-11 19:10 ` completion-auto-help Stefan Monnier
2005-11-11 19:32 ` completion-auto-help Drew Adams
2005-11-11 21:53 ` completion-auto-help Drew Adams
2005-11-11 22:43 ` completion-auto-help Drew Adams
2005-11-13 20:42 ` completion-auto-help Stefan Monnier
2005-11-13 21:06 ` completion-auto-help Drew Adams
2005-11-13 23:09 ` completion-auto-help Stefan Monnier
2005-11-13 23:40 ` completion-auto-help Drew Adams
2005-11-19 12:10 ` completion-auto-help Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-20 23:23 ` completion-auto-help Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-26 11:20 ` completion-auto-help Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-12 3:38 ` completion-auto-help Richard M. Stallman
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