From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emphasize the character to be typed next in *Completions* Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:04:48 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040322053942.03A2467DC4@imf.math.ku.dk> <405EB27E.6020904@math.ku.dk> <20040322.185510.266153697.jet@gyve.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080011657 13901 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 03:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsh@math.ku.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 04:14:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5cMn-0006vH-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:14:13 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5cMn-0003Rm-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:14:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5cMR-0007k9-VA for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:13:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5cIp-0004yG-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5cIA-0004TZ-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5cI8-0004SI-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:09:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B5cDg-0003DN-IR; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:04:48 -0500 Original-To: Masatake YAMATO In-reply-to: <20040322.185510.266153697.jet@gyve.org> (message from Masatake YAMATO on Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:55:10 +0900 (JST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20763 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20763 > IMHO it would be better with a highlighting like the one in incremental > search, i.e. highlight the part of the possible completions that match > what is in the minibuffer. It gives the same information to the user, > but is more familiar. I also implemented a version which highlights the common perfix string in completions. And I felt that the visual feedback is too strong. I agree. To emphasize the part that is not informative is not a useful feature. We want to keep various Emacs features coherent, all else being equal, but we should not make a user interface hard to use merely to follow some other feature. Putting bold face on a character has good balance between too much highlighting and indistinct representation. >From my view, Using box face property or underline face property may be good...but I have not tried yet. Should I provide all versions and make them choose-able? Please implement the ideas that you think might be good to use, then try them and see if they are good. Please don't bother supporting the bad interfaces.