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From: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Status of shell-pcomplete integration?
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:14:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8czqdu6.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84u1hvt7y2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de's message of "Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:53:41 +0100")

>>>>> On Tue Dec  3, Kai writes:

> Good.  So let's change pcomplete-cycle-completions to nil at the
> same time, to see whether people complain.

I thought it was suggested that rather than disabling completion
cycling altogether, we should prompt in the minibuffer while cycling
is being done, notifying of how many alternatives are left to
display...?

John

> John, how about setting pcomplete-cycle-completions to nil
> globally?  That would make it more consistent.

But cycling is a GOOD thing, and if you turn it off globally, 90% of
Emacs users won't know that it's there to turn on.

John

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-03 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-01 14:22 Status of shell-pcomplete integration? Romain FRANCOISE
2002-12-01 15:47 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-01 22:48   ` John Wiegley
2002-12-02 16:40     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-03  7:42     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-03 10:37       ` Romain FRANCOISE
2002-12-03 15:53         ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-03 16:14           ` John Wiegley [this message]
2002-12-03 16:28             ` Romain FRANCOISE
2002-12-03 16:28             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-12-03 17:04               ` John Wiegley
2002-12-04  1:31                 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-03 17:52               ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-03 16:23           ` Romain FRANCOISE
2002-12-03 17:05             ` John Wiegley
2002-12-05 10:39               ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-02 11:20   ` Mario Lang
2002-12-03 14:59 ` Richard Stallman

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