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: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand' Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:27:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874pbmjgsy.fsf@gmx.de> <874pbknt3j.fsf@tsuchiya.vaj.namazu.org> <87mypccg6r.fsf@jurta.org> <87abl8svpl.fsf@jurta.org> <47D3154F.7050908@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205018864 18616 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 23:27:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 23:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , tsuchiya@namazu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 00:28:11 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 1JY8SY-0006d5-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:28:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY8Rx-0002e1-Uw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY8Rt-0002cU-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:27:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY8Rr-0002ZH-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:27:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY8Rr-0002Z7-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:27:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JY8Ro-00038T-4q; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:27:24 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArcCAHKv0kfO+J2CdGdsb2JhbACQfQEwmRyBBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,468,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="15749715" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 08 Mar 2008 18:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.157.130]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id OAJ50823; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2876E7FD4; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 18:27:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <47D3154F.7050908@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:38:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: 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:91800 Archived-At: > Maybe it would be good to show the message before the prompt and on its own > line? That way it could perhaps easily be made read-only etc. Some people's minibuffer only has a single line available. E.g. mine. So it's fine to make up solutions using multi-line minibuffers (and echo areas), but the behavior should be acceptable also for single-line minibuffers. Stefan