From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 23092@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:45:15 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u19gn38.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F24F21.4040107@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:09:05 +0100")
At 09:09 +0100 on Wednesday 2016-03-23, martin rudalics wrote:
>
> ,(if temp-buffer-resize-mode
> '(window-height . resize-temp-buffer-window)
> '(window-height . shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer))
Thanks Martin, that indeed captures the observed behaviour in a
nutshell.
> Obviously, the second branch is based on the assumption that a user will
> "refine" her completions in the sense that she starts with a large
> number of possible completions and, by typing characters in the
> minibuffer, reduces the number of possible completions until she found
> the right one.
This is a valid assumption and basis of design when the completion is of
something like a command or a function name, because then the completion
list is gradually narrowed.
But in the case of completion of a file path, this assumption is not
valid. (And completing each directory name down a file path is a
perfectly normal use case.) The difference is that one is not doing a
single completion but several discrete completions.
For example, I was doing a find-file to find something in my Emacs init.
I started with `~/.em TAB' expecting a single match of ~/.emacs.d/ but
instead (of course) I got the initial completions window with .emacs and
.emacs.d in it -- a very small completions window. Then I needed a
subdirectory in ~/.emacs.d/ but couldn't remember its name at all, so I
hit TAB again and got the entire contents of emacs.d/ which is a very
long list [it seems to be jammed up full of session files for some
reason] all displayed in a buffer sized to show one line of
completion candidates.
> Apparently, the OP works in the opposite direction - he starts with
> few suggestions and removes characters from the minibuffer ending up
> with more and more suggestions.
No, not normally. When I was trying to come up with a simple
reproducible recipe I wanted an example in the emacs tree, and the
example I was able to up with was a bit contrived. (Although I don't
think it's an unlikely use case.)
N.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 17:07 bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command N. Jackson
2016-03-22 17:21 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-22 18:42 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-22 18:53 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-22 19:56 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-22 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-22 21:06 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-22 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-22 18:55 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-22 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-22 20:07 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-23 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-23 16:45 ` N. Jackson [this message]
2016-03-23 18:53 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-23 20:34 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-23 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-24 7:43 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-24 22:14 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-25 7:42 ` martin rudalics
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=878u19gn38.fsf@gmail.com \
--to=nljlistbox2@gmail.com \
--cc=23092@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=rudalics@gmx.at \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.