Re: Why fido, icycles, ido, icomplete

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 10:39:44AM +0000, Jo?o T?vora wrote:
>Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> writes:
>
>>>movie theater where there are only classics playing.  Lots of grainy
>>>footage but all movies are superb.
>> Yes, but nobody feels impressed by the special effects in the first Star
>> Wars today, in spite of they were amazing in their moment and required
>> much more effort than newer movies.
>
>I'm glad I made the analogy, then.  I am more interested in cinema than
>special effects.  Metaphoricaly, of course.  (but also literally).
>

>>>And I found icomplete.el, which is already in Emacs.
>> ivy is also based on icomplete actually.
>
>Oh.  What do you mean "based".  Does it share some of the implementation
>(i.e. does it 'require' icomplete as a library).  Or is it more of "a
>derived work"?
>
It is a derived work. Look: https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/issues/2321

>>>You are miscommunicating: the "gap" is whatever doesn't quite work in
>>>icomplete-mode to make it work just like ido-mode.  It's the behaviour
>>>of RET, C-k, C-d and some other things.
>> Could you add at least the cycle with arrows as in ido?
>
>Of course, and so can you.  Have you got a FSF copyright assignment?
>
Yes, I have one... but I prefer to deal with the C side of emacs... ;-).

>Jo?o
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Ergus