From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x C-b and C-x C-f bugging about confirmation Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1227274391.618443.2559.nullmailer@null> <1227353165.501338.3377.nullmailer@null> <87bpw6vcm3.fsf@jurta.org> <87abbqmu7u.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227496746 25380 80.91.229.12 (24 Nov 2008 03:19:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 24 04:20:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L4Rzd-0005AO-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:20:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4RyU-0005NB-B7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4RyP-0005Mu-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4RyN-0005MZ-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45855 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4RyM-0005MV-Uf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:16593 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4Rxk-0004MV-T5; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:14 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai0FAFGrKUnO+J+z/2dsb2JhbACBbSvMDIJ8gR0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,655,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="30206924" Original-Received: from 206-248-159-179.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.159.179]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 23 Nov 2008 22:18:11 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 40F96B40B3; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:10 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87abbqmu7u.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:45:41 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106052 Archived-At: >> When a completion is incomplete, display a message after TAB: >> Prompt: foo [Incomplete] > The above might be a nice feature, but isn't really good enough. Indeed, usually I wouldn't need an [Incomplete] to know that the text is incomplete. The problem is that I hit RET before seeing the result of the completion (and hence of the potential [Incomplete] message as well). > Alan Mackenzie's tweak to the [Confirm] prompt seems like an excellent > solution to this problem though. Indeed, it would cover 99% of my cases. Stefan