From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fix for bug 10994 breaks ido customizations in major way
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 12:35:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9o7rsan.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vc6vulvo.fsf@gmail.com
Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Currently
> >>
> >> (let ((t1 (propertize "aaa" 'aaa 12))
> >> (t2 (propertize "aaa" 'aaa 11)))
> >> (ido-completing-read "?: " (list t1 t2 "sfd")))
> >>
> >> works as expected. And the above patch breaks that.
>
> > That would be a horrible UI. Luckily AFAICT, it hasn't happened.
>
> Not the best UI, but definitely not horrible, users can distinguish 2-3
> strings on very rare occasions.
2-3 identical strings? really? how?
> It makes implementation much faster and
> solves a lot of hustle for lazy programmers:)
Speaking as an user, I'll say that ido is protecting users from sloppy
programmers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-07 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-02 17:57 fix for bug 10994 breaks ido customizations in major way Le Wang
2013-05-03 4:13 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-03 12:49 ` Le Wang
2013-05-03 20:33 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-04 7:00 ` Le Wang
2013-05-04 8:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-04 13:00 ` Le Wang
2013-05-05 10:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-05 11:39 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-05 12:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-05 12:58 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-05 13:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-05 14:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-05 15:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-06 15:11 ` Le Wang
2013-05-06 22:49 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-05-07 1:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-07 9:35 ` Le Wang
2013-05-07 10:26 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-05-07 10:35 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2013-05-07 14:49 ` Le Wang
2013-05-07 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-07 14:42 ` Le Wang
2013-05-07 14:44 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-07 14:47 ` Le Wang
2013-05-07 19:00 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-05-07 19:53 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-05-08 0:04 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-08 0:35 ` Le Wang
2013-05-08 3:10 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-08 3:29 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-08 4:49 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-08 8:14 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-05-08 8:42 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-08 12:23 ` Le Wang
2013-05-08 14:29 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-08 20:56 ` Juri Linkov
2013-05-10 1:52 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-17 2:48 ` Leo Liu
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