From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read-from-minibuffer vs completing-read -- Cueing Users: Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:34:24 +0530 Message-ID: <87fw0c1c8n.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20787.43814.231409.215686@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362341079 9141 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2013 20:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 20:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T. V. Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 03 21:05:01 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 1UCF9Y-0003Se-EX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:05:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF9D-0003Ea-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:04:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60409) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF9A-0003EV-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:04:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF99-0006MB-6v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:04:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-da0-f50.google.com ([209.85.210.50]:51660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF99-0006M3-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-da0-f50.google.com with SMTP id h15so2192406dan.37 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:04:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=szsywc8q8VOPcIohp5H1EkAm3J0h8TR+aNl6U3fqzes=; b=O0YIdhZKxYnd0yo3KO4Wub7r42UmBjaBRmBs4erl4hAzCwsSG/GAYhWE5tyrQFvBrz B91/qAuchTDAo+RB2IJtptHBgtCMrPKlpzTcMW5tRmlI07tNhhrhrTZzutcC2GnVnwJl 32lzJfa/yDH/dujOkiTDcU8HG9H2HiaHM3/cGavIAiOm0z36LZT/UxjmPW6xkclIKEgk hfv5+xWkpRFpqvy/eN9PxFAIkW6WLG1umd5+Ln1mJBMjC/LN7NoPGj25DSv2XQdtpJlx jrYXLe3XqE346McVuxWQw+KSYu51WCmaKgF12BO4MicdbOXOYJOsElaDCvjXAqsrcxvs 5Zfg== X-Received: by 10.68.197.231 with SMTP id ix7mr24598191pbc.123.1362341074296; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:04:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([115.242.155.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f9sm21083054paz.12.2013.03.03.12.04.31 (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:04:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20787.43814.231409.215686@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (T. V. Raman's message of "Sun, 3 Mar 2013 11:57:26 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.210.50 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:157499 Archived-At: "T. V. Raman" 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. --