From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand' Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:31:35 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <8763vs7v08.fsf@jurta.org> References: <874pbmjgsy.fsf@gmx.de> <874pbknt3j.fsf@tsuchiya.vaj.namazu.org> <87mypccg6r.fsf@jurta.org> <87abl8svpl.fsf@jurta.org> <87iqzves3k.fsf@jurta.org> <87zlt6qnu4.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205283204 30221 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 00:53:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, tsuchiya@namazu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 01:53:51 2008 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 4.50) id 1JZFE5-0007GU-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:53:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZFDX-000807-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZFB9-0006k4-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZFB4-0006hv-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZFB4-0006hl-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZFB0-0005ou-Hc; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JZFAq-000Prw-FJ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:50:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:54 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 69470ef176344869aa12c1af2e75e870 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2382 [Mar 11 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:92227 Archived-At: > One solution for `minibuffer-message' is to put an overlay at the end > of the minibuffer with the message and don't wait. Any new call to > `minibuffer-message' could replace the message on this overlay shared > between several calls to `minibuffer-message'. Any cursor movement > will remove it like cursor movements remove the message displayed > by `message'. Would this work? > > What user-visible behavior are you proposing? > (I am not sure from those words.) I thought about something like a new function `message-minibuffer' to be called in the minibuffer instead of the current `minibuffer-message', e.g.: (defvar message-minibuffer-overlay) (defun message-minibuffer (message) (setq message-minibuffer-overlay (make-overlay (1- (point-max)) (point-max))) (overlay-put message-minibuffer-overlay 'evaporate t) (overlay-put message-minibuffer-overlay 'after-string (format " [%s]" message))) But it seems impossible to add an overlay *after* the cursor at the end of the minibuffer, like `minibuffer-message' already does inserting the message after the cursor at the end of the minibuffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/