Re: Looking for universal completion with simple UI

[dont.spam.earl@gmail.com]

Eric, Tu, thanks for the pointers to Helm and the documentation!


On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:42:14 PM UTC-7, Tu, Do wrote:
> Vào 03:26:36 UTC+7 Thứ hai, ngày 06 tháng mười năm 2014, dont.sp...@gmail.com đã viết:
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> > I'm posting to ask about a completion model I have in mind. Before I code it up myself I'm trying to find any packages that already implement most or all of this functionality.
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> > The Emacs Wiki Category page for Completion lists packages for minibuffer completion and text completion:
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> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCompletion
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> > I want a package for completion both INSIDE and OUTSIDE of the minibuffer with a universal UI:
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> > - Minibuffer Input Completion:
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> >   - finding files
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> > - Text Completion in a Buffer:
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> > Further, I want to navigate via a couple "dimensions" of context, both historical (previous inputs I've entered), and alphabetical (previous and next alphabetically, as in files in a directory).
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> > The UI model and keybindings for this might be as simple as:
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> > - with candidates already shown, the second TAB/S-TAB would select the first candidate
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> > - navigate candidates alphabetically with C-r, C-s
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> > Do any packages implement this already?
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> > Earl
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> I wrote a Helm guide here: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html . A lot of demos are in there. 
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> Here is code completion using Helm: http://tuhdo.github.io/static/c-ide/semantic-boost-demo.gif . The picture is in C/C++ guide: http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html . Visit the page for more demos.