From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Engels Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What completion mechanisms are you using? Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:52:58 +0100 Message-ID: <200902011252.n11Cqwhc030115@triton.rz.uni-saarland.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233499757 16470 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2009 14:49:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:49:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 01 15:50:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LTdeT-0004ed-UE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:50:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTddB-0006vu-Ac for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTbov-0001Al-Vn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTbov-0001AZ-HR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44788 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTbov-0001AW-F3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from triton.rz.uni-saarland.de ([134.96.7.25]:26247) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTbou-0007TB-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from d174.sbustd.stud.uni-saarland.de (d174.stw.stud.uni-saarland.de [134.96.56.174]) by triton.rz.uni-saarland.de (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n11Cqwhc030115 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 13:52:58 +0100 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/23.0 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (triton.rz.uni-saarland.de [134.96.7.25]); Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:52:58 +0100 (CET) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.2-14; AVE: 7.9.0.70; VDF: 7.1.1.208; host: AntiVir3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:41:05 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61831 Archived-At: At Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:42:17 -0800, Les Harris wrote: > > senny writes: > > > Because I have no clue where to start searching for the ones I like, i > > wanted to ask you what extensions you are using and how they help you > > to optimize your day to day work. > > I'm a big fan icicles. It adds completion for pretty much any minibuffer > related activity you can think of (and then some). I still haven't come > close to really utilizing it to it's full potential (but then, with > emacs in general that is a rather normal state of affairs for me!) > > Features that I use often would include: > * Regex and Fuzzy matching. These are great when I have a general idea > what something I'm looking for is named but not exactly. Also good for > exploring possibilities within a subset of functionality. > > * Saving completion lists to act as de facto file listings for > projects. > > * Using it's completion to enhance the discoverability of emacs > commands for myself. > > Icicles if sort of a kitchen sink solution but a high quality one. If > you would like something a bit more focused perhaps look into ido-mode? > > My two cents at any rate. > > -- > Do they only stand > By ignorance, is that their happy state, > The proof of their obedience and their faith? At the moment i use ido and icomplete. But icicles seems really nice for completion. The only problem i have is, that it doesn't work well with ido. Why i want this weird setup is easy. I think ido is perfect for files with the way it shows them to me on selecting and the way you can browse through directories. For example with ido you just have to hit Backspace to go one directory up. So has somebody a clue how i can setup icicles that it gets used for everything except the things ido uses? Greetings Christian Engels