From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs should provide more modern item completion out of the box Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:18:02 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="200029"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: ndame , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 10:18:33 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1inJ6F-000ppU-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:18:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50268 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1inJ6E-0002Dv-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1inJ65-00029F-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:18:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1inJ63-0005PZ-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:18:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.20]:49530) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1inJ63-0005J6-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:18:19 -0500 Original-Received: from sdf.org (ma.sdf.org [205.166.94.33]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 0039I4hX001004 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Fri, 3 Jan 2020 09:18:04 GMT Original-Received: (from akrl@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0039I2vP015540; Fri, 3 Jan 2020 09:18:02 GMT In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Fri, 3 Jan 2020 01:31:53 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 205.166.94.20 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:243884 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > Hi! > > On 02.01.2020 15:44, ndame wrote: >> Do you agree that Emacs could benefit from such a modern completion >> system (for M-x, etc.) by providing a more attractive out of the box >> experience? > > There are several. > > For M-x, the easiest one to try out is 'M-x icomplete-mode'. Turn it > on and see how you like the new 'M-x' experience. > > And when Emacs 27 comes out, or if you can install a recent snapshot, > try out 'M-x fido-mode'. It's a somewhat tweaked version of the > former. Hi, in my opinion despite completion the other feature that is really killer in helm-M-x is that it suggests the key bindings associated with the listed commands. This is extremely helpful for learning new Emacs key bindings with almost no effort. Is there a way to have that with fido-mode or icomplete-mode? Thanks Andrea -- akrl@sdf.org