From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: "T. V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: read-from-minibuffer vs completing-read -- Cueing Users:
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:34:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw0c1c8n.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20787.43814.231409.215686@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (T. V. Raman's message of "Sun, 3 Mar 2013 11:57:26 -0800")
"T. V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com> writes:
> As a long-time emacs user, I always see if there are completions
> available in the minibuffer -- so the worst that happens is that
> I get disappointed if I am answering a read-from-minibuffer
> prompt -- thinking of this, I realized that there is a good
> chance that new-comers to Emacs do a lot worse in the other
> direction, i.e. never realize that completions are available.
> Should we be cueing this somehow in the prompt -- (are we
> already cueing the user visually?)
> vs a completing-read prompt
I have been using icomplete-mode for a while. Bzr trunk has an enhanced
version.
My only complain is that the icomplete-mode starts showing completions
only after you enter the first character. If the first character is
wrong, then you get a more useless "No match" or some such thing.
There is a buglet in the queue, only that it is not filed.
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2013-03-03 19:57 read-from-minibuffer vs completing-read -- Cueing Users: T. V. Raman
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