From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:50:16 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ir9iaamf.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182354929 32726 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 15:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 17:55:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I12Wg-00005n-6s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I12Wf-0007NY-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I12W7-0007Aa-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:54:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I12W5-00079w-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I12W5-00079t-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:54:45 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I12W4-00060r-8d; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:54:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I12W1-0006RG-KN; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:54:42 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 08\:34\:48 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 88f972a75cd389d721acc69b695bb680 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1162 [June 20 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73443 Archived-At: >> > Entia non sunt multiplicanda. Instead of inventing a dozen of new >> > representations of face samples, it would be better to use the format >> > familiar to users from using the command `list-faces-display': >> >> Yup, makes perfect sense, > > In emacs -Q, there are 63 faces. In my emacs, when I bring it up, there are > 280 faces. YMMV. I have 329 faces now and would like to see them in the format identical to the format of `list-faces-display' in the *Completions* buffer. I see no problem with that. > Adding a face swatch that is 53 characters wide to each completion candidate > means a lot of unnecessary clutter for *Completions*. It adds nothing for > the user in this context to repeat the alphabet twice, even if > `list-faces-display' is "familiar". Exactly for the same reason you can complain about clutter in the output of `list-faces-display'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/