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: [gmane.emacs.help] Info-mode and ido Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:56:16 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87prt6egwb.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87ej9s6lta.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> <87tzinn762.fsf@jurta.org> <004101c892dd$18b01600$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207264273 7258 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2008 23:11:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:11:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Michael Olson' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 01:11:45 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 1JhYak-0004Uh-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:11:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhYa7-0006mL-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhYY5-0005sz-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhYY3-0005sc-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhYY3-0005sQ-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from relay03.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.201]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhYXy-0003QH-V9; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay03.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JhYXx-000DSF-2t; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:08:41 +0300 In-Reply-To: <004101c892dd$18b01600$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:12:47 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: e35cef5ed21d82303c208435479e4a86 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 2566 [Apr 04 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: 10 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: 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:94298 Archived-At: >> > It would be best if a new customizable option called >> > `Info-completing-read-function' were defined, with >> > 'completing-read as its default value. Then the code >> > could just do: >> > >> > (funcall Info-completing-read-function ...) >> > >> > I do this in all of the Emacs Lisp code I touch which uses >> > completing-read. >> >> I think it would be better to create a new `completing-read-function' >> variable like already existing `read-file-name-function' and >> `read-buffer-function'. > > Yes, that is what I proposed in thread "proposal - minibuffer completion > functions". One significant advantage is that all code that calls > `completing-read' while the binding is in effect can then take advantage of the > custom reading behavior. This change should be accompanied with a new function ido-completing-read since the initial request was to use ido style completion in Info-mode. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/