From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell: Support old-style completion and cycling completion? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:17:54 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84lm0fidel.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84k7g0x9oz.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045468954 16782 80.91.224.249 (17 Feb 2003 08:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18kgES-0004MX-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:02:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18kgDL-0000Y4-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 03:01:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045468676 49009116 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AGoal7QuvQxD2IJR4J6strrAlVQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110263 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6765 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6765 Galen Boyer writes: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de wrote: > >> Hm. Thinking some more, it's possible that a behavior that I would >> like is this: >> >> If there is a common prefix for all completions, insert that. If >> there is more than one possible completion, beep. After the next >> TAB, show all possible completions. After the next TAB, complete to >> the first completion. So it's a kind of a hybrid between old-style >> and cycling style. > > The tab following the first completion buffer scrolls that completion > buffer. How should the user retain that functionality? Good point. I hadn't thought about that. Well, C-M-v can be used for scrolling. Or TAB scrolls until it arrives at the end and then starts cycling. Probably depends on taste. -- A turnip curses Elvis