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: Making completion more interactive Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:52:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83vbljtefz.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418244807 25016 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 20:53:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 21:53:20 2014 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 1XyoG8-0003B2-CG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:53:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47910 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyoG8-000187-1M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:53:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50115) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyoFo-00017x-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyoFh-0005R1-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:53:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:48047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyoFg-0005Qc-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:52:53 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGD00G00WA1AC00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:48:42 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGD007VMWH6WW70@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:48:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 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:179704 Archived-At: > From: Tom > 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?