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: inputting characters by hexadigit Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:00:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4887B829.8010804@gmail.com> References: <868ww3vydn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87myki6fqp.fsf@jurta.org> <87mykhz6tf.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzeokrku.fsf@jurta.org> <87od4wgg8p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <86od4vmi5i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873am6n21q.fsf@jurta.org> <87sku5if8t.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87od4sti4g.fsf@jurta.org> <867ibcekf3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878wvsut39.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 1216854092 4685 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 23:01:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 01:02:21 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 1KLnLe-0006Kz-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:02:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLnKj-0002tu-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLnKe-0002tI-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLnKe-0002t4-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33875 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLnKd-0002t0-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:51643) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLnKb-0000rr-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62147 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KLnKX-00058V-4f; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:01:09 +0200 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: <878wvsut39.fsf@jurta.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080723-1, 2008-07-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KLnKX-00058V-4f. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KLnKX-00058V-4f 48099f8f09a872f0f3043a644a7a162d 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:101345 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: >>> Can completions be cascaded somehow? The first tier would show all the >>> common first words, e.g. ... AEGEAN APL GREEK ... and then selecting >>> something from the first tier would cascade down to the second tier. >> The slow display should only happen when the list is really long, >> i.e. basically if you hit TAB with an empty minibuffer. So we could >> indeed easily use a different completion behavior in this case. > > When I type TAB in the empty minibuffer, I really want to see all > completions even when the list is really long, to be able to use isearch > to find a completion candidate etc. Everyone who wants to narrow the > completion list can type the first word like "latin TAB", so I think the > current completion behavior is satisfactory. To me the suggestion that someone (sorry forgot) sent to complete word by word looks very useful here. And I would even suggest it as a general completion feature.