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: C-r and C-s in minibuffer should search completion Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:07:48 +0100 Message-ID: <47E2C414.2000408@gmail.com> References: <87fxul194g.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 1206043692 911 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2008 20:08:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 21:08:42 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 1JcR45-0000HJ-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:08:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcR3V-0007i1-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcR3Q-0007eo-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcR3O-0007bT-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcR3O-0007b5-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:07:58 -0400 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 1JcR3O-0008Fa-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:59739 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JcR3I-0000se-7Q; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:07:52 +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: <87fxul194g.fsf@jurta.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080320-0, 2008-03-20), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JcR3I-0000se-7Q. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JcR3I-0000se-7Q a50c3d15873ff2cfe0cc44cae146ad4e 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:93057 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: >> I believe C-s and C-r in the minibuffer should not only search the >> history but the completion table as well (at least when it's not >> a function). > > There is one problem: what to search first - the history or the > completion table. Either preference will cause inconveniences. > If the user wants to search the history (like implemented in shells), > we should not let isearch to go thru all completion matches before > starting to search the history, and vice versa. > > But really there is no need to mix two separate search spaces. > There exist already a convenient key sequence to search the completion > table: `PgUp C-s'. PgUp switches to the *Completions* buffer and > C-s starts searching among completion candidates. Why not let PgDn switch between searching history and completions? Or maybe cycling history/completions/history+completions?