From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand' Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:38:07 +0100 Message-ID: <47D3154F.7050908@gmail.com> References: <874pbmjgsy.fsf@gmx.de> <874pbknt3j.fsf@tsuchiya.vaj.namazu.org> <87mypccg6r.fsf@jurta.org> <87abl8svpl.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205015917 10511 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 22:38:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tsuchiya@namazu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, rms@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 23:39:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JY7h2-0000JB-4L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:39:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY7gT-0001Ds-Ng for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY7gP-0001Df-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY7gM-0001BJ-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY7gL-0001BB-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:21 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JY7gH-0007oG-J5; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:17 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64493 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JY7gF-0005K2-6p; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:38:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87abl8svpl.fsf@jurta.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080307-0, 2008-03-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JY7gF-0005K2-6p. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JY7gF-0005K2-6p 1a784049719fa510394805c448bfbc86 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91791 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: > the Isearch error message overwrites the minibuffer content, but with this > patch it appends the error message to the end of the minibuffer, e.g. > > I-search backward: foo [Failing I-search backward: bar] Maybe it would be good to show the message before the prompt and on its own line? That way it could perhaps easily be made read-only etc. It also seems to be a rather natural place to show it - at least if you are used to command line tools.