From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making completion more interactive
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:52:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vbljtefz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20141210T213658-139@post.gmane.org>
> From: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:38:19 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Modern completion systems usually show completions
> automatically. You just type and the completions are shown. This
> is how it works in various applications, google, etc.
>
> Currently, the builtin completion uses TAB for three purposes.
>
> - showing the completion list for the current input
> - completing the common part of the completions
> - scrolling the completion list
>
> The 2nd and 3rd could keep doing what it does, but in the first
> case TAB could be eliminated, and completions could be shown
> automatically as the user types either immediately or after a
> slight delay when the user stops typing.
Did you try Icomplete mode?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-10 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-10 20:38 Making completion more interactive Tom
2014-12-10 20:43 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-12-10 20:51 ` Tom
2014-12-11 5:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-10 21:24 ` Fabrice Niessen
2014-12-10 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-10 20:59 ` Tom
2014-12-11 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-10 22:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11 1:23 ` Artur Malabarba
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