From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 05:48:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83ob5ee7ow.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <877gc5fm30.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87k3g47m7b.fsf@yandex.ru> <528B6F11.7070607@yandex.ru> <87y54ke8v3.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87li0kdrsz.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <878uwi8t3r.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385005771 23505 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2013 03:49:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: josh@foxtail.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 04:49:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjLGp-0000Vr-DM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:49:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58402 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjLGo-0002nr-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjLFt-0000nn-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:48:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjLFo-0005ij-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:48:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:64219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjLFo-0005ib-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:48:32 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MWL00500GW7VH00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 05:48:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MWL0052XH8UVK20@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 05:48:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878uwi8t3r.fsf@mail.jurta.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165463 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:52:30 +0200 > Cc: Stefan Monnier , > emacs-devel > > > Many people access `previous-history-element' in the minibuffer through > > the up arrow, so I hope it is not commandeered for this purpose. Instead, > > what about entering the mode from the minibuffer via C-f and right arrow, > > but only when the point is at the minibuffer's point-max (i.e. when > > `forward-char' would currently complain "End of buffer")? Besides being > > less disruptive for users than changing the behavior of , using > > C-f/ for this purpose has the mnemonic benefit of suggesting > > "go beyond what I've typed". WDYT? > > The web browsers solve this problem by combining completions for > history and suggestions in the same list (separated by a horizontal line). The problem with that is that the resulting list is frustratingly long.