From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell: Support old-style completion and cycling completion? Date: 17 Feb 2003 20:24:14 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84k7g0x9oz.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84lm0fidel.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lel66527i.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87el66vgtj.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045535646 21926 80.91.224.249 (18 Feb 2003 02:34:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 02:34:06 +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 18kxa7-0005hN-00 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:34:03 +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 18kxbL-0001Fp-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:35:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!gestalt.direcpc.com!telocity-west!DIRECTV!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!nntpserver.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!novia!newscene.com!newscene.com!newscene!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-Sender: galenboyer@hotpop.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110319 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:6821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6821 On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, johnw@gnu.org wrote: > Pcomplete (which is what Eshell uses) will not cycle if the number of > completions exceeds `eshell-cmpl-cycle-cutoff-length'. > > These fancy TAB behaviors sound very interesting. I'm eager to hear > what you all decide upon. > As for me, I like TAB to cycle right away if the number of > completions is very small, and to pop up the Completions buffer if it > is large. I think I like this the best. If the completions buffer is envoked, does the cycling behavior kick in after the completions have decremented past eshell-cmpl-cycle-cutoff-length'? That could make the final choice always based on cycling (or full completion), which might be useful. -- Galen deForest Boyer Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.