From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean O'Rourke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Second tab key for completion Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:09:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4854F7B0.2020408@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213539076 31236 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2008 14:11:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:11:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 15 16:12:00 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 1K7sxX-0002Es-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:11:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58411 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7swj-0001jK-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7svm-0001Cv-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7svk-0001C1-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38133 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7svk-0001Bs-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37972 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7svj-0004xi-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K7svg-0005Mm-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:10:00 +0000 Original-Received: from 76.91.74.244 ([76.91.74.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:10:00 +0000 Original-Received: from seano by 76.91.74.244 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:10:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.91.74.244 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Db4qCIaTKrvrclhrJBQW9/6fHo= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:99257 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > Some month ago I started testing an idea for using the second tab key > for completion. I think I told about the idea here then. > > [...] > > Any thoughts or ideas? This looks useful. I have had something similar but much more primitive for awhile in Sepia, a Perl editing package I maintain. Specifically, tab tries to indent, but if no indentation occurs, it will try to expand an abbrev or function name before point. I think I prefer your "second tab" version, though. In briefly trying it out, I think there's too much visual feedback by default. In particular, changing the mode line causes a distracting flicker away from where you are editing, and seems redundant when you already show a mark on the active line. Sean