From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: GNU Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: is there any vertical incremental completion in Emacs?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:20:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn58oikk.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X5MUc0rCkoquQJ8z@protected.rcdrun.com>
Have you seen Ivy?
Hth,
mb
On 2020-10-23, at 19:35, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> I am researching various built-in modes in Emacs so that some
> applications do not depend on external packages and that I could later
> propose it to ELPA without dependencies on outside packages.
>
> So far I am using helm for reason that it is vertical incremental
> (search like) completion, and I would like to simplify it. I would
> need split window or full window and list of possible completions in
> similar manner as helm, but not fully. Plethora of applications are
> possible to be built on such, I don't speak of tools but business
> applications and I already use them. And it needs to select from large
> number of items.
>
> Helm works well but is also overkill.
>
> Maybe something similar already exists?
>
> I am looking into all available built-in packages that contain the
> word incremental, icomplete, ibuffer, allout, but I do not find what
> would be usable.
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-23 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-23 17:35 is there any vertical incremental completion in Emacs? Jean Louis
2020-10-23 18:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2020-10-24 13:22 ` any way for ivy to get reverse terms to match all candidates? Jean Louis
2020-10-24 14:07 ` is there any vertical incremental completion in Emacs? (ivy found) Jean Louis
2020-10-23 19:20 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2020-10-24 13:08 ` ivy is alright - Re: is there any vertical incremental completion in Emacs? Jean Louis
2020-10-24 9:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 12:21 ` Jean Louis
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