From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eshell: Support old-style completion and cycling completion? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:38:00 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87el66vgtj.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <84k7g0x9oz.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84lm0fidel.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lel66527i.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045510818 15371 80.91.224.249 (17 Feb 2003 19:40:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18kr7Q-0003yg-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:40:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18kr8H-0000ay-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:40:53 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!gestalt.direcpc.com!telocity-west!DIRECTV!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wMQzabIrFrV5/NNIlf2Dbk41VV8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 17 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110303 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6805 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6805 >>>>> On Mon Feb 17, "Stefan writes: > I think Kai's suggestion makes perfect sense. After all, if the > list of completions is long enough to span two screens, then you > probably don't want to start cycling through them, Pcomplete (which is what Eshell uses) will not cycle if the number of completions exceeds `eshell-cmpl-cycle-cutoff-length'. These fancy TAB behaviors sound very interesting. I'm eager to hear what you all decide upon. As for me, I like TAB to cycle right away if the number of completions is very small, and to pop up the Completions buffer if it is large. John