From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [friedman@splode.com: some other observations on pcomplete] Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:01:04 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200203102132.g2ALWfr04155@wijiji.santafe.edu> <87it8339co.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200203111906.g2BJ67a04582@wijiji.santafe.edu> <871yeq3nk7.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1015927403 17668 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2002 10:03:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kj7q-0004ar-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:03:22 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16kj9y-0002QB-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:05:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kj7b-0006hL-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kj5k-0006fK-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g2CA1Ab24274; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:01:10 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id LAA16024; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:01:04 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 905F23B425; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:01:04 +0100 (CET) Original-To: John Wiegley In-Reply-To: <871yeq3nk7.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (John Wiegley's message of "Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:35:20 -0700") Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:1872 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1872 John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> On Mon Mar 11, RMS writes: > >> That could be an ok solution if it really achieves the effect. But >> why have the overhead of loading pcomplete just to get the same >> results as before? It seems better just to revert the change; >> people who want pcomplete behavior can rebind those characters to >> run pcomplete easily enough. > > Mainly because people could then configure them back on. I agree. With pcomplete turned on but configured to behave like the old completion, Custom is good enough to change it. With TAB bound to the old function, people need to write Lisp in their init files. (Since global-set-key is not available via Custom.) Maybe it would also be a good idea to configure pcomplete in the same way everywhere (by default), to get uniform behavior. Also, I gather that with pcomplete it's possible to complete on command arguments, as well.=B9 That's tr=E8s cool. The old completion doesn't offer that. kai =B9 For instance, "lpr -P" followed by TAB would list all available printers. --=20 Silence is foo! _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel