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: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand' Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:48:28 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87od9raglv.fsf@jurta.org> References: <874pbmjgsy.fsf@gmx.de> <874pbknt3j.fsf@tsuchiya.vaj.namazu.org> <87mypccg6r.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204826252 11022 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2008 17:57:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:57:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Albinus , TSUCHIYA Masatoshi , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 18:57:58 2008 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 1JXKLi-0007RJ-Fi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:57:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXKLB-0001eN-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:57:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXKL4-0001a6-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXKL2-0001XM-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXKL2-0001Wr-4U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:57:04 -0500 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 1JXKL1-000205-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JXKKu-000NZe-Di; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:57:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:04:07 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) 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 2366 [Mar 6 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:91526 Archived-At: >> Yes, these messages overwrite the minibuffer, but instead of temporarily >> redefining the function `message' as in shell-command.el, it would be >> better to fix comint.el and shell.el to not display completion messages >> when the minibuffer is active. These files already contain places where >> this check is done this way: > >> (unless (window-minibuffer-p (selected-window)) >> (message "Completing file name...")) > > I think that when the minibuffer is active, we should still output > a message, only differently (as does minibuffer-message). Maybe just > using minibuffer-message (and changing it so it uses plain "message" > when the minibuffer is not active) would do the trick. This will require changes in a lot of places to replace `message' with `minibuffer-message'. But maybe `message' should take care of the active minibuffer and display the message at the end of the minibiffer when it is active using `minibuffer-message'? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/