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: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:53:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140106155428.GA8618@c3po> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389041609 1425 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 20:53:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 20:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Toby Cubitt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 21:53:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0HAy-0002kR-HW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:53:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0HAx-00061h-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:53:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38775) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0HAo-00061R-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0HAh-0005X0-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:53:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:15738) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0HAg-0005Wj-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:53:14 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxKG9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALDiYSFBgNJIgkwS2RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxKG9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALDiYSFBgNJIgkwS2RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="44274225" Original-Received: from 69-196-161-189.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.161.189]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 06 Jan 2014 15:53:13 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4F72462F04; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:53:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20140106155428.GA8618@c3po> (Toby Cubitt's message of "Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:54:28 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167526 Archived-At: >> >> Extending the company API or the completion-ui API to handle things >> >> like filename completion (including the issues linked to handling >> >> quoting/unquoting) is far from obvious, >> > What's the roadblock here? I don't see it. >> I know. That's why it's non-obvious. > Witty, but not very illuminating! I don't really know how to illuminate here, sadly. I did go through the trouble of getting these things to work in minibuffer.el, but I don't have a good insight to provide as to why it was tricky. Stefan