From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about completion behavior
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 05:37:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qzbg5j2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv35jreshd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:05:52 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:05:52 -0500
>
> >>> Was all this behavior intended or how do you propose to solve this?
> >>I think this can be changed.
> >>Patches welcome.
> > I am struggling how to preserve the old behavior indeed, because what I
> > find a bit confusing is actually the default behavior.
>
> I think we should first consider *not* preserving the behavior.
> I.e. as suggested by the comment, rather than hide the completions, we
> should update them (if they're displayed).
But please don't keep updating the completions buffer if TAB arrives
at a complete (but not necessarily unique) candidate. That would be
an annoyance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-09 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20220309001013.gxyh2uasbuxiz6ww.ref@Ergus>
2022-03-09 0:10 ` Question about completion behavior Ergus
2022-03-09 0:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09 1:46 ` Ergus
2022-03-09 3:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-03-09 10:11 ` Ergus
2022-03-09 11:46 ` Ergus
2022-03-09 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-09 13:46 ` Po Lu
2022-03-09 17:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-09 17:41 ` Ergus
2022-03-10 0:42 ` Po Lu
2022-03-10 10:21 ` Ergus
2022-03-10 11:15 ` Po Lu
2022-03-10 14:03 ` Ergus
2022-03-10 18:50 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-10 22:35 ` Ergus
2022-03-12 18:31 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-13 14:58 ` Ergus
2022-03-12 0:17 ` Ergus
2022-03-12 18:34 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-13 11:21 ` Ergus
2022-03-13 17:44 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-13 18:50 ` Ergus
2022-03-13 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-13 19:49 ` Ergus
2022-03-13 20:48 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-13 21:15 ` Ergus
2022-03-13 23:14 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-13 23:38 ` Ergus
2022-03-14 2:23 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-12 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-09 14:30 ` Ergus
2022-03-09 16:14 ` [PATCH] " Ergus
2022-03-09 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-09 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-09 14:22 ` Ergus
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