From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: finder.el UI (was: Keywords) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:25:54 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <874okc6x5p.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> References: <87zl2g24xy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mxyfq3bz.fsf@gmx.de> <87sk87h49a.fsf@gmx.de> <87hbomwu4b.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <878w9yr0zh.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <87pr37ka78.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87fx41uwl4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269019837 30416 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 17:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:30:37 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 18:30:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nsg1f-0001u3-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:30:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nsg1W-0006QQ-Mc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nsg1R-0006O6-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52866 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nsg1P-0006M0-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nsg1O-0005ZX-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nsg1O-0005ZT-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nsg1M-0001jN-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:30:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YKiqhkqaZFlLNRK34FCLhrhNZ/E= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122292 Archived-At: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:33:03 +0200 Juri Linkov wrote: JL> There are remaining two tasks in finder.el that I think would be useful: JL> ;; Things to do: JL> ;; 1. Support multiple keywords per search. This could be extremely hairy; JL> ;; there doesn't seem to be any way to get completing-read to exit on JL> ;; an EOL with no substring pending, which is what we'd want to end the loop. JL> ;; 2. Search by string in synopsis line? ... Is there any possibility of rethinking the UI of finder.el? It's very... episodic. The BBDB UI, for instance, does a great job filtering and displaying a few choices from a large list. The Gnus summary/article buffers are another good UI example, with the limiting commands. package.el can list hundreds of packages concisely. Ted