From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core?
Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 19:10:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tzjcg3x.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY1PJ+t1+0OvnE2cOa4=d76KS82+UXhSRPFmYAkyo4i_bQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2016-05-09, at 18:37, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:41 AM Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to have (kind of) a menu, perhaps in a temporary buffer,
>> displaying a list of options and giving a way to select one of them.
>> Like, say clocking into one of recently clocked tasks in Org, or the
>> main manu in mu4e, or the possible corrections in ispell etc. It seems
>> that a lot of packages use their own mechanism to do something like
>> that; now that I think of it, I guess it would be nice to have
>> a "canonical" way. One advantage would be that by customizing this
>> "default" way, the user could define his/her preferred way of showing
>> the menu/selecting the option for _all_ applications using it.
>>
>> WDYT? Is there anything like that in Emacs?
>
>
> I haven't used it directly. But someone please correct me if I am wrong;
> doesn't the inbuilt completing-read already do this?
>
> Packages like ivy.el have ivy-completing-read which conforms to the default
> completing-read, and can be easily used to enhance that.
Yes and no. I thought about it, and rejected the idea: I want all the
options to be visible without pressing TAB. Also, each option might
need more than one line (and the number of lines may vary between
options), so I don't like the idea of using minibuffer at all.
Thanks anyway,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-09 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 10:09 Any infrastructure to select one of a few options in Emacs core? Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 15:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 16:37 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-09 17:10 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-05-09 17:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 18:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-19 20:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-20 1:16 ` John Mastro
2016-05-20 23:52 ` John Mastro
2016-05-21 20:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-09 18:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2016-05-14 4:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21 20:49 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-14 4:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21 20:52 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.43.1463863961.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-22 6:32 ` Emanuel Berg
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