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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about completion behavior
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:56:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sfrrdpyr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220309143016.n2q3u25gat6plaxz@Ergus> (message from Ergus on Wed, 9 Mar 2022 15:30:16 +0100)

> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 15:30:16 +0100
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> The current behavior mixes the completion-auto-help==t with
> completion-auto-help=='lazy when there is some completion and the
> completions are already visible (hiding them).
> 
> If we do:
> 
> compi<tab> it should be completed, but if the completions list is
> somehow visible, then after the tab it is not correct, so we currently
> hide it, when we must just update it right?

No.  This is on purpose: with the current behavior, the user can type
a few more characters to fit a single candidate, then hit RET and be
done.

Showing the completions buffer when it is not necessarily needed is a
distraction when you type TAB not to see the candidates, but to have
Emacs type stuff for you.

> The fix in any case is extremely simple and I think that with a new vale
> for completion-auto-help to 'always it will work, but may be even
> complicated to explain in the documentation...

Changes in this area must be optional, because Emacs has behaved like
that for eons.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-09 16:56 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
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 [this message]
2022-03-09 13:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-09 14:22               ` Ergus

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