From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Status of shell-pcomplete integration? Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:14:41 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r8czqdu6.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <87u1hxstta.fsf@orebokech.com> <843cph3fm8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <877ket8ifr.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <84ptsj5z0f.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <873cpf2xs1.fsf@orebokech.com> <84u1hvt7y2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038932335 25943 80.91.224.249 (3 Dec 2002 16:18:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JFl5-0006k6-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:18:51 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18JFue-0003Vh-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:28:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JFhW-0007Eo-00; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:15:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JFh9-0006F4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:14:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JFh7-00069T-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JFh6-00065f-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:14:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.143] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 4218223 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:13:59 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JFh3-0007HM-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:14:41 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9831 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9831 >>>>> 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