From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Cubitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:11:54 +0000 Message-ID: <20140108161154.GA23429@c3po> References: <87mwj6a3pt.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Toby Cubitt NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389197530 9873 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 16:12:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:12:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 17:12:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1W0vjo-0007yO-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:12:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vjo-0007Tr-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53131) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vjh-0007Tb-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:12:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vjc-00037x-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:12:05 -0500 Original-Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.167]:11739) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vjc-00037m-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 30162 invoked by uid 1003); 8 Jan 2014 16:11:58 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.geekisp.com [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.geekisp.com (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:11:56 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mwj6a3pt.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.dr-qubit.org/gpg-toby-pub.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.11 (Ladyburn) X-Primary-Address: toby@dr-qubit.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: OpenBSD 4.x-5.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 216.168.135.167 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167740 Archived-At: On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:33:02AM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:49:27 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> Neither Company nor CAPF support refining the completion list by adding > >> more characters to the prefix/pattern (somewhat similar to > >> isearch). > > SM> FWIW, this feature is indeed currently not provided by the > SM> completion-at-point UI, but that is not because of > SM> completion-at-point-functions (CAPF) which only provides the backends. > > Yes. Narrowing the list of candidates should be a frontend feature. Yes, that's what I meant. In Completion-UI it is implemented as a frontend feature. Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Royal Society University Research Fellow and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge Centre for Quantum Information DAMTP, University of Cambridge email: tsc25@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org