From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Theodor Thornhill Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master f6967d2 1/3: Allow for the completion buffer to be automatically selected Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:39:57 +0100 Message-ID: <875yrga0oi.fsf@thornhill.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4354"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net To: Daniel =?utf-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 22 20:41:06 2021 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 1n07U2-0000ut-1A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52356 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n07U0-0003ks-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:41:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n07T2-0002zY-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from out1.migadu.com ([91.121.223.63]:20916) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n07Sz-0007xK-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:40:03 -0500 X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=thornhill.no; s=key1; t=1640201999; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=eZsyyXDXrMwfj+/ArPiPSgmzYDmDuo9D7IcUxUzfFx8=; b=oISJxGvsU2ct0jUPA3FDn2VR9J7aDO3pvcK6hFf2dOkboC9fPoccmUgrwW0+AseZKbY9MX eBRPLkK7IweWb3ZCeAsrbw6vxlIN/7kxh+u3ZmsBdnsEBr3KuF2PA38kUY+T9D41unSVqe 81ZurA6iuLqnl7E9V3XZbArctdaxBXtI4BV5wuiGCw14D3qHVn9Cyk6L/BcWU03ztE4TzW DuNrdXdBdrcAKFDbS2YnGFnvEJaSbYYqX291D4wlNz2ULiEqlO1wFNGu9AUhOt27Q+3cbH 6qjj5nS6N8D2wN183IykFw3LkcJB8cXsUN6bH5my6PqJ3stm1vR+vChnzqaW2w== In-Reply-To: X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: thornhill.no Received-SPF: pass client-ip=91.121.223.63; envelope-from=theo@thornhill.no; helo=out1.migadu.com X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:282829 Archived-At: Daniel Mart=C3=ADn writes: > I don't think I like this change to the minibuffer defaults. It breaks > muscle memory and IMO is more incovenient when you need to show the > completion list many times. > Sorry for my ignorance, (and partly offtopic question) but why would you want to show the completion list many times? Isn't that very slow when moving around files? > One typical workflow I have is doing something like C-x C-f TAB TAB to > see the list of completions and then continue typing to narrow the list > of completions. After this commit, you need to switch back to the > minibuffer to continue completing things, which is annoying. > This feels very inefficient. Wouldn't it be faster just having the completion candidates open, then narrowing? I have always found the default emacs completion system very arcane, but I might be missing something. Theo