From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] (icomplete-vertical-mode): Add support for affixations and, annotations Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 01:07:07 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87h7irss50.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87zgwlb4xc.fsf@gmail.com> <617d06ca-27bf-2ae8-26eb-1042123499d3@daniel-mendler.de> <87pmxhb1rs.fsf@gmail.com> <23510125-37b9-e87e-3590-5322f44772ce@daniel-mendler.de> <87y2c5nhsr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="347"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_T=E1vora?= , Dmitry Gutov , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Daniel Mendler Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 25 00:13:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1llIpZ-000AX7-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 May 2021 00:13:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38356 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llIpY-0001vN-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 18:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llIox-0000Xe-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 18:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.197]:38029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llIov-0003vS-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 18:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 27A011C0003; Mon, 24 May 2021 22:13:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Daniel Mendler's message of "Mon, 24 May 2021 12:26:52 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.197; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay5-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:269813 Archived-At: > Do you mean we cannot handle something like a tabular layout where > annotations can be resized on the UI level. Exactly. What I'm trying to do is to use tabulated-list in the completions buffer. Your recent refactoring to completion--insert-* was a big improvement. Now we have several rendering functions in the default frontend: 1. completion--insert-horizontal 2. completion--insert-vertical 3. completion--insert-one-column The next step would be to allow the option 'completions-format' to accept an arbitrary frontend rendering function. Then a new possible value could be added such as: 4. completion--insert-multi-column So when affixation-function will return a list of multiple columns, e.g. for buffers the same list of columns as used by list-buffers: '("C" "R" "M" "Buffer" "Size" "Mode" "File") from the backend, the new frontend rendering function completion--insert-multi-column will accept such a list of all columns, set it to the buffer-local variable 'tabulated-list-entries', and call 'tabulated-list-print' to render it in the output buffer *Completions*. Such design would follow a clean backend/frontend separation that everyone already agreed about.