From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:30:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxuiyzan.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87od967972.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:14:25 -0400")
>> I think the only problem preventing this change is one completion message
>> that overwrites the minibuffer when TAB doesn't find a completion.
>> I propose the patch below similar to the patch I proposed for the
>> shell command minibuffer completion.
>>
>> When this is fixed, it makes sense to allow TAB to complete a lisp
>> symbol part of the eval-expression minibuffer in the same way as TAB
>> will allow completion of command name and file name parts of the
>> shell-command minibuffer.
>
> The discussion seems to have been badly sidetracked.
>
> The patch looks good. Please install it.
The first part of the patch is installed now. But I still see
no unanimous consensus on what command to bind to TAB in
read-expression-map. Currently it inserts just a tab character,
and this is useless in the minibuffer.
I think we could add a new command `lisp-indent-or-complete'
that will complete a Lisp symbol if the character preceding point
is symbol-constituent, or indent line or region otherwise.
And bind TAB in read-expression-map to this command.
Note that I don't propose to bind TAB in emacs-lisp-mode to this
command by default. So no changes in emacs-lisp-mode (though it will
be available to easily rebind TAB in .emacs to everyone who likes this
behavior).
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-23 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 17:30 Usability suggestion : completion for M-: paul r
2008-03-13 18:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-13 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-13 21:32 ` paul r
2008-03-13 21:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-13 23:32 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-13 23:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-21 5:21 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-14 8:52 ` paul r
2008-03-15 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-15 23:35 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-15 23:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 8:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 11:00 ` paul r
2008-03-16 11:21 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-03-16 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 12:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-16 8:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 12:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 13:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 10:56 ` paul r
2008-03-16 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 18:42 ` paul r
2008-03-16 19:56 ` Bastien
2008-03-16 20:22 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-03-17 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-17 4:07 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-17 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-17 9:32 ` paul r
2008-03-17 19:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-18 9:19 ` paul r
2008-03-19 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-19 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-19 18:16 ` paul r
2008-03-19 19:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 18:49 ` paul r
2008-03-16 12:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 20:06 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-03-22 21:14 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-23 2:30 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-03-23 5:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-09 20:42 ` Paul R
2008-04-09 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-10 23:12 ` Juri Linkov
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