From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sorting command completions by recency Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:55:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <875z2qslwk.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <877dn635oe.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30889"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 17 20:57:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lCSwn-0007vt-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:57:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60566 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCSwm-0004Ij-Rc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:57:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54460) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCSvS-00032u-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:55:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:2878) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCSvO-0008Ip-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:55:53 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 588CF44135D; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:55:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id E462144134F; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:55:46 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1613591746; bh=dO94iAZQB4UdTuEnvW0agC5iWkJ+KaF74EKAQOZpgDs=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=Fhh3/vcJAH83zDq5QZpZ82H1ufKeOEtFzDak7h5jmiFBrkQGsu0gGA/JwhVB5IxQK mOPoMJwDJaStYfodv6NoiPuzKb0K+kXrbbvGdOFa84Sx68hW5Cav8acodrWujrULb7 GIZggpozSdsPtFu9MV7cU/QGIgoyC5jXoLlMChhIyIiAR3hvR2uT81gV6gcoI7OnIN 0Q+Y8quru8cpnZTqLxpW+44CdJgeTYN7Z8j792VLd4cBjamhCyj53m13wE/4DgR9Wt CgV5WZi6jF5F3o9DFOPpOQUEJxr5KTNHzjpce63ryaOBwF8ZqTVY6MTggDHN2zNWJ3 2poPgD1AMB8Ww== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.41.47]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24D061202E4; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:55:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <877dn635oe.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:33:37 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265067 Archived-At: >> This code puts the recent commands at the top as well, >> but probably it needs to be opt-in: > Makes sense to me, and, yes. FWIW, the minibuffer.el code already uses this kind of sorting for the list of completions used in things like `icomplete` and `completion-cycle-threshold`. For *Completions* the sort was kept alphabetical so far because that's also useful (for example in the case of M-x completion, it makes it easier to skip over blocs of commands sharing the same prefix). So, while I think it can be useful to sort by some kind of "guessed usefulness" such as presence in the history, I don't think this should be forced by the completion table of commands. Stefan