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: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:10:48 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87d2ltl2if.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <877gc5fm30.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87k3g47m7b.fsf@yandex.ru> <528B6F11.7070607@yandex.ru> <87y54ke8v3.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87li0kdrsz.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <878uwi8t3r.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <83ob5ee7ow.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385079852 8507 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2013 00:24:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: josh@foxtail.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 01:24:14 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjeXd-0007VP-67 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:24:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjeXc-0008SL-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33570) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjeXS-0008QF-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjeXM-0007Xv-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhost.com ([69.163.218.105]:56810 helo=ps18281.dreamhostps.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjeXG-0007Ik-D6; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:23:50 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.jurta.org (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417F9258B9E935; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:23:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83ob5ee7ow.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 21 Nov 2013 05:48:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 69.163.218.105 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165514 Archived-At: >> > Many people access `previous-history-element' in the minibuffer through >> > the up arrow, so I hope it is not commandeered for this purpose. >> >> The web browsers solve this problem by combining completions for >> history and suggestions in the same list (separated by a horizontal line). > > The problem with that is that the resulting list is frustratingly > long. The browsers put the most frequently visited history items at the top. As I see icomplete does the same when displaying completions in the minibuffer. So items could be sorted either by frequency or by recency in the *Completions* buffer as well.