From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ido-completing-read and substrings of choices
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:47:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1mwtgnaln.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nfpsze4.fsf@wanadoo.es> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:52:51 +0200")
On 2013-04-02 23:52 +0800, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> The documentation on ido.el is centered around selecting files and
> buffers. However, ido-mode is so convenient that more and more people
> are using ido-completing-read as a replacement for completing-read on
> lots of contexts. IMHO ido-completing-read deserves move visibility on
> the documentation at the top of ido.el or, better, explain the general
> goal of ido-mode starting from ido-completing-read and present file and
> buffer selection as specific applications.
I agree. I actually change completing-read-function to a personally
modified ido-completing-read.
I am thinking of maintaining ido.el and give it a better documentation.
But writing texi doesn't thrill me. Let me think about it.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-02 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-02 11:49 ido-completing-read and substrings of choices Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02 11:54 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-04-02 12:22 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02 15:13 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-02 15:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02 16:47 ` Leo Liu [this message]
2013-04-03 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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