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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: feature/completions-highlight-modifications e3c5b99 3/6: Add completions-highlight-mode initial implementation.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:31:36 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc2212ed-2d85-46aa-8850-c14971065c7f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9e53v1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net>

> > Icicles uses `C-insert' to move the cursor back and
> > forth between the minibuffer and *Completions*.  It
> > moves between the current candidate in the minibuffer
> > (from cycling) to/from the same candidate in
> > *Completions*.
> 
> What the default completions implementation is still missing
> is a command/key to insert the selected completion
> from the the *Completions* buffer to the minibuffer
> without exiting the minibuffer.

Does it have a key that moves from a completion candidate
in the minibuffer (e.g. from cycling) to the same candidate
in *Completions*?  That's also missing, AFAIK, in addition
to placing the current completion in the minibuffer as you
cycle.  No?

The same key should be used for both operations: minibuffer
to *Completions* and *Completions* to minibuffer.  And it
should go to the "current" completion candidate in each case.

And it should be a key that's not ordinarily used for editing,
if it's made available in the minibuffer.  For example, we
shouldn't use a key such as `insert'.
___

It's already the case that perfectly fine self-inserting keys
(`?', `SPC') have been excluded, in the minibuffer, from their
ordinary behavior (self-inserting).

That was misguided, IMO.  It took us decades to finally get
`SPC' to be self-inserting, and even then, it's only for
`read-file-name', not `completing-read'.  Why it was assumed
that completion candidates would/should not contain space
chars or question marks, I don't know.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-16 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20201115023629.19537.77471@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20201115023631.C78AB20A27@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-11-15 18:41   ` feature/completions-highlight-modifications e3c5b99 3/6: Add completions-highlight-mode initial implementation Stefan Monnier
2020-11-15 22:49     ` Ergus
2020-11-15 23:32       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16  3:37         ` Ergus
2020-11-16  3:56           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16  5:40             ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16  7:39             ` Ergus
2020-11-16  5:38           ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16  8:54             ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 10:27               ` Ergus
2020-11-16 20:23                 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 21:16                   ` Drew Adams
2020-11-17  0:46                   ` Ergus
2020-11-17 20:02                     ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-17 20:52                       ` Drew Adams
2020-11-18 19:43                 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-18 22:45                   ` Drew Adams
2020-11-19  3:25                   ` Ergus
2020-11-19  7:45                     ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-19 10:50                       ` Ergus
2020-11-20  9:32                         ` Juri Linkov
     [not found]                           ` <20201120145248.wmbv2zgbvs7bg25i@Ergus>
2020-11-21 19:30                             ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-22 13:28                               ` Ergus
2020-11-22 20:03                                 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-22 23:09                               ` Ergus
2020-11-23  9:14                                 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-23 11:46                                   ` Ergus
2020-11-23 14:13                                     ` Jean Louis
2020-11-23 19:12                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-23 19:44                                         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-23 20:54                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-23 23:27                                       ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-10  1:16                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-10  8:23                                           ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-25  8:49                                     ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-20 14:24                         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                           ` <20201120144940.p55brblxpuowslag@Ergus>
2020-11-20 15:15                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 16:03               ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16 20:28                 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 21:31                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-11-18 19:30                   ` Juri Linkov

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