Re: [PATCH] Re: Other details about completion.

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 10:45:48AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> So inserting a letter from the Completions buffer is the only thing
>>> that you miss from zsh?
>>
>> Actually yes, that and remove the mode-line to completions...
>>
>>> But you also said above that this feature is
>>> not important because such cases are rare: "M-x find-file /my/file/path".
>>
>> I can live with that. Lets say in our case adding a space does not make
>> much sense, but just inserting the letter in place without completion
>> may be a better behavior... But again... I can live with this.
>
>Indeed, there is a problem with staying in the Completions buffer
>and typing a letter.  When this letter will update the completion,
>then the Completions buffer should be updated that causes more problems
>such as where to move point after such buffer reverting, since
>the Completions buffer is the current buffer, etc.
>
>>> In all other regards, currently it works exactly like in zsh:
>>> 'TAB TAB' selects the Completions window, and C-g cancels it.
>>
>> Yes...
>
>So we have two possible cases: selecting a completion candidate
>when the Completions buffer is the current buffer, and the second
>case is when the minibuffer is current.  The first case now works fine,
>and we need to improve the second case.  The new mode zcomplete-mode
>will help to do this.

The advantage of using the minibuffer for everything as icomplete does
is that there is no context switching, so it is a single case, single
map etc... The inly liitation we have there then is that completins are
not shown on demand, but automatically; but I am not sure if that is
actually a bad or good thing...