From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Xref completion
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:38:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ima3rfq7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873617ets1.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (message from Pierre Neidhardt on Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:13:18 +0100)
> From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:13:18 +0100
>
> Currently, when a xref query hits multiple candidates Emacs shows a Xref
> buffer with the various candidates and their location.
>
> While informative, it's a bit slow in terms of UX because the user has
> to navigate an extra buffer just to confirm the candidate.
>
> I've addressed this issue as part of my work on Helm-SLY, a Helm for the
> fork of SLIME.
>
> https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-sly
>
> In particular, I've overridden the behaviour with regards to Xrefs and
> instead of showing the Xref buffer, I'm now offering completion: the
> user can match against the symbol but also against the file and line
> position.
>
> See screenshot attached.
I'm not sure I understand the UI and the interaction. When there are
several hits, they usually are spelled (almost) the same. So how
would the user pick up what he/she wants using the completion UI?
And where are the candidates shown -- in the minibuffer? or in a
special buffer, like Xref does?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-17 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-17 18:13 Xref completion Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-17 18:22 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2020-11-17 18:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-17 18:46 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-11-17 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-17 19:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-17 19:27 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-17 20:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-17 21:16 ` William Xu
2020-11-17 21:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-18 7:35 ` William Xu
2020-11-18 13:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-18 18:53 ` William Xu
2020-11-18 19:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-18 20:39 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-19 1:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-18 18:47 ` João Távora
2020-11-19 1:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-19 8:19 ` William Xu
2020-11-19 13:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-02 21:44 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-03 0:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-03 21:09 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-05 1:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-05 12:21 ` William Xu
2020-12-05 21:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-06 8:30 ` William Xu
2020-12-06 11:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-06 14:00 ` William Xu
2020-12-06 21:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-05 19:52 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-05 21:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-06 20:46 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-06 21:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-06 21:34 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-06 21:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-07 9:27 ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-07 15:12 ` jixiuf
2020-12-07 21:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-07 21:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
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