From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Other details about completion.
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 21:50:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <024631F1-7D64-4784-BEF4-9B34ABFFC234@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h776cbxa.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
On April 6, 2022 8:29:13 PM GMT+02:00, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
>> Yes but there are three key differences there: 1) browsers show the
>> completion list immediately (like icomplete and
>> it's family), so they don't require a tab to show the completion list or
>> any binding to jump to/exit the completions list either.
>
>We could add a new variable or a new value to completion-auto-help
>to show the completions buffer on any edit.
>
This will be very complex to do with the current infrastructure. Not for the show, but for the update. I wanted to do it and it required too many changes here and there... Maybe you find a better way.
Any way.. IMHO I think that going in that direction is a bad and more complex approach. For such behavior it may be better to use icomplete and similes...
I would be fine if we mimic zsh or fish, and let the browser like behavior to other completion infrastructures...
>> 2) the browser completions are shown vertically only, so no horizontal
>> navigation is needed and not modifiers to the keys are needed either as
>> there is not any collision of bindings.
>
><M-left> and <M-right> can be activated in the minibuffer only
>when the completions buffer shows more than 1 column. Maybe
>there is already a variable to detect this situation?
>
I don't think there is anything for that yet... Let's rethink first what we really need.
>> 3) The search they perform is on the history, so when the candidate is
>> unique it is inserted and selected, so easier to erase the suffix if
>> needed with backspace or insert at the end (right arrow).
>
>This is not what I see, candidates are not selected.
>Maybe you use other browsers versions.
>
In my browser I can type and the list is updated; then the arrow down selects, but if I go up with the arrow at some point it goes to the top and disables the extra completion...
>> BTW: do we have any sort of history search based on the inserted text
>> like bash history-search-backward??
>
>It's just 'C-r C-w' in the minibuffer.
Ohh lord
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[not found] <20220401153839.idrzrbfl2yfzga3y.ref@Ergus>
2022-04-01 15:38 ` Other details about completion Ergus
2022-04-01 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-01 16:43 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-01 16:45 ` Ergus
2022-04-01 20:24 ` [PATCH] " Ergus
2022-04-02 18:09 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-03 0:39 ` Ergus
2022-04-04 19:35 ` Ergus
2022-04-04 19:45 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-04 20:31 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-05 11:06 ` Ergus
2022-04-04 22:33 ` Ergus
2022-04-05 19:22 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-05 23:20 ` Ergus
2022-04-06 7:35 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-06 13:21 ` Ergus
2022-04-06 16:48 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-06 17:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-06 18:25 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-06 20:01 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-06 17:45 ` Ergus
2022-04-06 18:29 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-06 19:50 ` Ergus [this message]
2022-04-07 7:35 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-07 9:16 ` Ergus
2022-04-07 16:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-07 17:38 ` Ergus
2022-04-07 18:04 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-07 18:35 ` Ergus
2022-04-08 7:40 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-08 8:42 ` Ergus
2022-04-08 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-08 16:46 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-08 9:31 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-08 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-08 16:51 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-08 20:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-04-06 23:55 ` Ergus
2022-04-06 18:13 ` Ergus
2022-04-06 18:34 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-06 20:34 ` Ergus
2022-04-07 7:39 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-07 9:08 ` Ergus
2022-04-07 16:50 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-07 17:22 ` Ergus
2022-04-07 17:57 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-07 18:27 ` Ergus
2022-04-08 7:45 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-08 8:46 ` Ergus
2022-04-08 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-08 16:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-06 9:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-06 16:43 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-07 11:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-07 16:46 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-08 12:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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