From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating *Completions* as you type Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:56:02 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86y1g076vh.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87bkd3z9bi.fsf@catern.com> <86cyxjyr1y.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86r0lxm7um.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87sf6dx954.fsf@catern.com> <87ttqpwea9.fsf@catern.com> <86wmvlw178.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87bkcwx3ft.fsf@catern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9773"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Spencer Baugh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 18 09:04:05 2023 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 1qt0b5-0002MG-MC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:04:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qt0a8-0001fl-FY; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qt0a6-0001fY-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:dc4:8::225]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qt0a5-0005fm-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77A801C000A; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:02:56 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87bkcwx3ft.fsf@catern.com> (Spencer Baugh's message of "Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:57:27 +0000 (UTC)") X-GND-Sasl: juri@linkov.net Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:4b98:dc4:8::225; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay5-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311555 Archived-At: >>> Also, tangentially, I think probably we should rework >>> minibuffer-complete-history and minibuffer-complete-defaults to be >>> persistent - as in, regular TAB afterwards continues to complete history >>> or defaults. And there should be some way to reset back to normal. >>> That would be a good complement to this completions-sort change, by >>> maybe giving a way to switch on-demand to alphabetical sorting. (I've >>> long thought this would be good and useful, but in particular it's >>> relevant for completions-auto-update since that will otherwise nearly >>> immediately reset the displayed completions back to normal.) >> >> I think we should choose a key to toggle completion type between >> history/default/regular completion. > > That works too of course, although it causes some more proliferation of > keys. > > I'm curious, what is the intended usage of > minibuffer-complete-{history,defaults}? The fact that they only do a > single completion has made them not very usable for me. The currently limited use case is that you can type a substring, then TAB and select the completion from the list. You are welcome to improve this as well. >> Actually for 'C-x b' I'd prefer to sort buffers by the order of (buffer-list), >> not by the order buffers occur in the minibuffer history (that I'd like >> to use for everything else). > > Reasonable. I suggest that this should be achieved by adding a > display-sort-function, though. (And... actually, that > display-sort-function could maybe just be identity, since the > completions are generated from buffer-list so they are in that order > anyway?) Actually there is already a nil value in completions-sort with the tag "No sorting". This works nicely for 'C-x b'. The remaining need is to be able to set it only for 'C-x b', not for other completion types.