From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>,
Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 23:21:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5z07jdts.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47b502ea-cb89-7aad-6519-ff6e84180929@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Wed, 28 Apr 2021 03:08:46 +0300")
>> I was thinking only of tweaking the existing UI to better support the
>> case of "selection" compared to "completion". What you suggest here is
>> nice and it goes much further but I don't think the two are competing.
>
> Perhaps a "selection" tweak on the *Completions* interface could look like
> this:
>
> When completing-read is called (or selecting-read, IDK), *Completions*
> buffer is popped up. The first element in the list is highlighted with some
> noticeable background, thus telling the user that if they press RET right
> away, that item will be selected. The user can now type some characters to
> narrow down the matches, or the can move the selection along the list with,
> say, arrow keys. Or C-n/C-p. Or press RET right away to choose the first
> completion. Not sure if iteration with TAB is a good idea, but it could be
> added as well.
Yes, that's pretty much the UI behavior I imagine.
> That doesn't solve the issue of hiding a "useful" window with this buffer,
> but there's probably not much that can be done.
Normally we should already try and make efforts not to hide "obviously
useful" text when we pop up *Completions*, and as for the part that
aren't obviously useful (or that we can't not hide) the user can always
go and hide the *Completions* buffer manually (or do any other normal
window manipulation).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-28 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-25 13:32 [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 19:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-25 19:47 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 21:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-25 22:10 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 22:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-25 22:58 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-26 4:51 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2021-04-27 16:53 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-28 6:18 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2021-04-25 23:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-26 10:01 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-26 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 1:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-27 1:59 ` tumashu
2021-04-27 2:45 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-27 15:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-27 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-28 0:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-28 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-04-25 19:38 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH) Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 20:45 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-25 21:26 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 16:20 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-29 16:52 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-29 17:13 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-29 23:55 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 2) Daniel Mendler
2021-04-30 9:00 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-30 17:01 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-30 18:11 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-30 18:30 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-01 19:57 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-02 0:43 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-02 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-02 11:01 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-30 16:51 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-30 18:13 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-01 19:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-02 0:32 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-02 21:38 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-07 17:03 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-07 17:55 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-08 6:24 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-08 8:45 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 4) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-08 9:10 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-09 17:59 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-09 18:50 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-09 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-09 19:11 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-10 20:47 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-11 7:51 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 5) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-11 17:59 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-08 13:15 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 2) Stefan Monnier
2021-05-09 18:05 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-09 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 18:06 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-11 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 18:58 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-11 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 19:46 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-11 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 20:30 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 6) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-13 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-13 11:45 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 7) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-20 9:39 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-20 17:53 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-20 18:51 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 17:09 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH) Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 17:16 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 17:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 18:31 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-29 20:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2021-04-29 22:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 23:31 ` Drew Adams
2021-04-29 19:21 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-02 14:29 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 3) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-02 21:49 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-03 14:40 ` Daniel Mendler
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