From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature branches review please Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 09:19:28 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20201104161200.tyeo2r5jibdahukb@Ergus> <234bba7f-fd5c-ed39-8a5e-8a6ce3125bf1@inventati.org> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27299"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 10:20:34 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 1kaxv8-00070x-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 10:20:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49232 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaxv7-00087u-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 04:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaxuF-0007ap-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 04:19:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:63650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaxuC-0000ZL-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 04:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 0A69JVkb013390 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Fri, 6 Nov 2020 09:19:31 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0A69JxQe027354; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 09:19:59 GMT In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/06 03:42:24 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no 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:258791 Archived-At: > > I am looking for preferrably built-in system that will have narrowing > vertical incremental search, like built-in ivy or helm. Something that > ido or icomplete could become. Until then I keep ivy as most simplest > solution as I prefer package from GNU ELPA. > Again I'm not sure I understand what you want, but I think you should try (setq completion-styles (cons 'flex completion-styles)). With that setting you can narrow the candidates list with any character, you do not need to type the first characters. > > You may see how dmenu which is separate program works under X Window > system to launch files: > > 1.8M demo of dmenu program: > https://gnu.support/images/2020/11/2020-11-05/2020-11-06-01:38:29.ogv > 404 Not Found...