From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "T. V. Raman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: read-from-minibuffer vs completing-read -- Cueing Users: Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 11:57:26 -0800 Message-ID: <20787.43814.231409.215686@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362340652 4653 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2013 19:57:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:57:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 03 20:57:56 2013 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 1UCF2i-0005UY-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:57:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47803 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF2M-0001Wc-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:57:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59186) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF2J-0001WL-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:57:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF2I-0004dZ-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:57:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-da0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:35269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF2I-0004dS-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-da0-f46.google.com with SMTP id z8so2196497dad.19 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:57:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:date:to:subject:x-mailer:reply-to:from:x-attribution; bh=Q8mxUrOT2lDLrsVC1upJKhtgM4UrdTjDQWebz72ZknA=; b=qbLhcQkdtDM4Qr5JMdlFqDNWdC2SpGYwUTAswbNiAByhqVe1WtbZ2JnzqKa3oBpt02 2daw+YtqL0dshIkeLToW2vVUJAladNk+tpTsBPYLSCQSCervbmttq4qwT6MVplY7xZI8 CzzS3iVzaTPh1v3YviMi5Ud1HFPezFwUIM7BsnlM4ssbC1AwScdqYjicH9pnDIrE5h4b yrABH9CQKyqJKceI2GsFkid1Gt42rLdNau6qes5ZcCGVTnMKglp56QoFrn5OeSv/QQZO IfRFkic0Z+KqM25H+IqqO5/VpTz3BKhgRH7yhFUZWicgzp7SDznrzsBtatCOLPyF6oiQ mGkw== X-Received: by 10.66.149.228 with SMTP id ud4mr28669467pab.123.1362340649172; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:57:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from labrador.google.com (c-71-202-188-217.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [71.202.188.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gg7sm19598263pbc.45.2013.03.03.11.57.27 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:57:28 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 24.3.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) x-attribution: tvr X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.210.46 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:157498 Archived-At: As a long-time emacs user, I always see if there are completions available in the minibuffer -- so the worst that happens is that I get disappointed if I am answering a read-from-minibuffer prompt -- thinking of this, I realized that there is a good chance that new-comers to Emacs do a lot worse in the other direction, i.e. never realize that completions are available. Should we be cueing this somehow in the prompt -- (are we already cueing the user visually?) vs a completing-read prompt -- Best Regards, --raman