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: on helm substantial differences Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:57:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83tutkz1ea.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnymda5g.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87ima5he8j.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87mtzfzt9a.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87lfezd8r0.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87k0uj58ub.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87lfey28us.fsf@tcd.ie> <87ft56h6sr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2iybe27.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <873614ido7.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39040"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, bugs@gnu.support, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 20 12:58:37 2020 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 1kg53l-000A2C-QE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:58:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45414 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kg53k-0006gr-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 06:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kg530-0006Dj-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 06:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kg52y-0001SR-S7; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 06:57:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1866 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kg52x-00073l-HQ; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 06:57:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <873614ido7.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:24:24 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259481 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:24:24 +0200 > Cc: spacibba@aol.com, Jean Louis , andreyk.mad@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, > Stefan Monnier , Gregory Heytings , > Eli Zaretskii , Drew Adams > > > BTW, using `affix-function' also makes it possible to group completions, > > then the prefix of the first completion in the group could contain > > a group header with group name. > > 'mule--ucs-names-annotation' has this comment: > > ;; FIXME: It would be much better to add this annotation before rather than > ;; after the char name, so the annotations are aligned. > > With `affix-function' it's possible to add the char before the char name. > Adding groups is also simple (I recall that Richard asked to group by blocks). FWIW, I like the old behavior better, since it shows completions in the "traditional" way: first the stuff I typed completed, then whatever else is relevant. So maybe this should be an optional feature.