From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Inline completion preview Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:58:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83bkckdxxb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h6mdfcv2.fsf@gnu.org> <83fs1wdzs8.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22779"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: me@eshelyaron.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 27 14:59:33 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qwMR3-0005dm-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:59:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qwMQ4-0005CQ-1W; Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qwMQ2-0005CH-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:58:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qwMQ2-0003nw-99; Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:58:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=l+XBiogkrQgQ/dbkVdc7tVml0BYnozKGgXKydROGa+U=; b=ivY5oF4Y0tZbB6j5YiiW AcDG4MiMeoFnsW0jA83sGLWq3xwDuEJ3++0kaWtF6J/sYZN7Lnb7wjAdkVq/aqhtTGMVnoc6CT+TK FguGxcDZLDKuzFPvpCzu3ZzukmLCqhjKak1sBQMqeDSel4B2z7K/JL5fX/lKutaNsTY6qmkG/76ny t2y+kinF3uTblQBJj/u0UQd+PgUfVcgAcdPOupVU5GvBolm9Y9bR48gBhiOfT9VhDQ3Gypj90cnWr RcJ3+ssEHPmkAQxSTwLPe8POcXV/0ZPziCDLdNrxcObHnB/yH2PsE7l0O8VC2qDS9AJ71E83BcMy3 eLAPxTkwNp5Npw==; In-Reply-To: (message from =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= on Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:55:47 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311932 Archived-At: > From: João Távora > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:55:47 +0100 > Cc: me@eshelyaron.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 1:18 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > don't see any catastrophe in having features that can only work > > on GUI frames, although we should try to avoid that. For example, > > popup menus and dialog boxes were not supported on TTY frames for 2 > > decades, and we didn't consider that to be such a bad thing. > > Because popup menus and dialog boxes aren't nearly as useful as > a completion popup. Who even uses the mouse? TTY menus are supported even without the mouse. > Let's do this for both TUI and GUI emacs. Like I said: ideally, that's what we should do.