From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Looking for a buffer-cycling library Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:18:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <24adfe99-712a-4bb4-ab31-a70deb0cbce6@default> References: < < <828513f5-92dc-49f2-91e6-4711146f4356@default> <87389jt476.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416169150 6807 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 20:19:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:19:10 +0000 (UTC) To: Marcin Borkowski , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 21:19:05 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6Hp-0002nr-3h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:19:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6Ho-0000EE-MK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57349) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6HV-0000Dp-1P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:18:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6HN-0000M7-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:27394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq6HN-0000M2-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:18:37 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sAGKIZME027635 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:18:35 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id sAGKIYMX011156 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:18:34 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sAGKIX6i023274; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:18:34 GMT In-Reply-To: <87389jt476.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100966 Archived-At: > In Ido, I often use C-SPC, which takes what I've typed so far, > restricts the set of candidates to all the matches and lets my > type again. This way, I can e.g. type one part of the filename, > then C-SPC, then another part, then cycle. > > AFAIR, in Icicles you can do the same, with the difference > that keybindings are (probably) different, and the mechanism > is more general. Yes. The Icicles key for this is `S-SPC'. I call this feature "progressive completion". It is typically a lot easier, and quicker, to incrementally apply simple patterns to match than it is to try to come up with a single complex pattern that is equivalent. http://www.emacswiki.org/Icicles_-_Progressive_Completion http://www.emacswiki.org/Icicles_-_Nutshell_View#ProgressiveCompletion A related feature for narrowing choices is what I call "chipping away the non-elephant": matching candidates that you want to exclude instead of include. http://www.emacswiki.org/Icicles_-_Nutshell_View#ChippingAway