From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Le Wang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is mcomplete.el still relevant? Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:25:47 +0800 Message-ID: References: <4abbdab5-239d-456d-8272-d453b2fb45a1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf3066815716649904c5b0a37c X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343262359 31304 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2012 00:25:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:25:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Minejima Yuji Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 26 02:25:58 2012 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 1SuBtt-0005r8-SJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:25:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SuBtt-0004eO-2W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37272) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SuBtm-0004dx-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SuBtk-0003SR-V4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:62593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SuBtk-0003RY-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: by qabg27 with SMTP id g27so3434212qab.0 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:25:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=hrWXG/D4zuiVdLB3vGBoHQVZvDkVTYMQlspmq//1gzk=; b=cBmO/vL1YZ499Md9CPBv6P4Bh0a921GZIHtwBTmC5JcfPTYYMhpcZVfzeG1B32wFGZ udQnzUWmk7+2x+RpPkchyiAUlWDeIk2EOTa/bOlwP/EFpMCeHfE40r6GFmmg8Xi4e8P2 Cp4MmOZdQfJ84+8IfIwOQBhr6jfBxsfELu/sajss6JHOSIQ3KxhKW7Ue0ggGEDBG3j4/ /eNGOt+1kIyvCqe9TLFDZaT8Ol6ju5G3aPC7ZBwhWsGAhlYYEZjnunbjxazUSDzWM1sO kVPji+sFFQyaESKA2Ek6KVQCjPpfM03hfP5nqnx6i9J/Zk0u1VDaSwJ8Blloe6ITkFbu idYA== Original-Received: by 10.224.101.193 with SMTP id d1mr349576qao.20.1343262347912; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.49.86.229 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:25:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4abbdab5-239d-456d-8272-d453b2fb45a1@googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 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:86047 Archived-At: --20cf3066815716649904c5b0a37c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Minejima, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Minejima Yuji wrote: > Hi, there. > I'm the author of mcomplete.el package which does minibuffer completion > with prefix and substring matching. > http://homepage1.nifty.com/bmonkey/emacs/elisp/mcomplete.el > > I've been away from Emacs and Elisp for several years now. But I decided to > come back. Back then, some people toled me that they loved mcomplete.el. > I have very fond memories of using mcomplete. And I still carry it around, although it hasn't been loaded as part of my Emacs init for some time. Thank you for contributing your time to improve my Emacs experience! > But time flies like an arrow, I'm not sure if it's still relevant to the > current > Emacs environment. > > Does some other package overtake its functionality? Or does Emacs no > longer need it because it already does the same thing on its own? > I believe ido, which is a part of Emacs 24 has very similar functionality. Although helm is the completion package I've settled on. https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm -- Le --20cf3066815716649904c5b0a37c Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Minejima,

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:18= AM, Minejima Yuji <yuji.minejima@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, there.
I'm the author of mcomplete.el package which does minibuffer completion= with prefix and substring matching.
http://homepage1.nifty.com/bmonkey/emacs/elisp/mcomplete.el<= /a>

I've been away from Emacs and Elisp for several years now. But I decide= d to
=A0come back. Back then, some people toled me that they loved mcomplete.el.=
But time flies like an arrow, I'm not sure if it's still relevant t= o the current
Emacs environment.

Does some other package overtake its functionality? Or does Emacs no longer= need it because it already does the same thing on its own?
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