From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell: Support old-style completion and cycling completion? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:22:37 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84znou4yaq.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84k7g0x9oz.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84lm0fidel.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lel66527i.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045506698 28870 80.91.224.249 (17 Feb 2003 18:31:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18kq2t-0007U4-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:31:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18kpxK-0002k3-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:25:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e995.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e995.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.233.149) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045506250 49702884 217.225.233.149 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1L7nJL/umMVZFBTHhk+aDwqS12I= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110291 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6795 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6795 "Stefan Monnier " writes: > I think Kai's suggestion makes perfect sense. After all, if the > list of completions is long enough to span two screens, then > you probably don't want to start cycling through them, Well... My suggestion was to cycle anyway (perhaps after TAB has scrolled the completions buffer to the end). It could be useful if I know that my file is the second or third, even if there are 100 choices. -- A turnip curses Elvis