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From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Question about completion behavior
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:58:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220313145856.6nlsbktbbvqhfjwo@Ergus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86pmmr827e.fsf@mail.linkov.net>

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 08:31:57PM +0200, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>>One question - please explain what values of completion-auto-help
>>>nil/t/lazy/visible/always now do in these cases that you posted earlier:
>>>
>>>  1. no unique        (shows or update completions)
>>>  2. unique common    (complete-common and UPDATE completions)
>>
>> The new values only change this case.  Always shows or update
>> completions and visible only updates if they are already visible.
>> The other previous values just hide completions.
>>
>>>  3. unique candidate (complete and hides completion)
>>>  4. unique common but completion is a valid entry (complete-common and hides completion)
>
>Shouldn't some value disable hiding completions in the last case when
>there are more completions available with a valid entry as a prefix?
>Maybe the same values 'visible'/'always' should be applicable for this case
>as well?

Such modification may create an even simpler code.  But we need a way to
hide the completions because there is no way to hide completions in case
the user just wants that.

Alternatives are:

    a) To make minibuffer-hide-completions an interactive function and
find a binding for it. (zsh uses C-g or DEL to first hide completions
and then execute the normal command after a repet.

    b) We could add a feature to toggle completions (ex: add an extra
value 'toggle, that toggles completions in some cases, but that may
exclude 'always or 'visible).

    c) We could hide completions after a second tab after no completion
    was made when vale is 'always or 'visible and completions are
    visible. But that may disable next-completion with tab from the
    minibuffer.

Any idea?
Best,
Ergus



  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-13 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220309001013.gxyh2uasbuxiz6ww.ref@Ergus>
2022-03-09  0:10 ` Question about completion behavior Ergus
2022-03-09  0:22   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09  1:46     ` Ergus
2022-03-09  3:05       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09  3:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-09 10:11           ` Ergus
2022-03-09 11:46             ` Ergus
2022-03-09 13:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-09 13:46                 ` Po Lu
2022-03-09 17:32                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09 17:41                     ` Ergus
2022-03-10  0:42                     ` Po Lu
2022-03-10 10:21                       ` Ergus
2022-03-10 11:15                         ` Po Lu
2022-03-10 14:03                           ` Ergus
2022-03-10 18:50                             ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-10 22:35                               ` Ergus
2022-03-12 18:31                                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-13 14:58                                   ` Ergus [this message]
2022-03-12  0:17                               ` Ergus
2022-03-12 18:34                                 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-13 11:21                                   ` Ergus
2022-03-13 17:44                                     ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-13 18:50                                       ` Ergus
2022-03-13 18:57                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-13 19:49                                           ` Ergus
2022-03-13 20:48                                       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-13 21:15                                         ` Ergus
2022-03-13 23:14                                           ` Drew Adams
2022-03-13 23:38                                             ` Ergus
2022-03-14  2:23                                               ` Drew Adams
2022-03-12 20:25                             ` Drew Adams
2022-03-09 14:30                 ` Ergus
2022-03-09 16:14                   ` [PATCH] " Ergus
2022-03-09 16:56                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-09 13:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-09 14:22               ` Ergus

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