From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:52:00 +0530 Message-ID: <87y5gwfprb.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87391ieck9.fsf@gmail.com> <87624nsjes.fsf@gmail.com> <87d2yq9dvi.fsf@gmail.com> <87boe995nq.fsf@gmail.com> <87bodykqlx.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355771993 4429 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2012 19:19:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12638@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 17 20:20:07 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TkgEP-0005Os-UI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:18:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([101.63.189.10]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kl5sm8634933pbc.74.2012.12.17.11.18.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:18:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:28:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:68660 Archived-At: >> The attached patch fixes the issue by sneaking a Ctrl-M in to the try >> try completion field. > > That looks ugly and I don't find the ^M to be very intuitive. > > Basically there are 2 options: > - Let "" be anywhere in the {...} list rather than only at the beginning. > This would seem inconvenient if it's not compensated by some other > "Complete, but not unique" marker. Your ^M is one such option. > We could also keep an empty () (or []), which is fairly logical and > might be vaguely intuitive. My vote goes for option 1. > - Force "" to be at the beginning and have minibuffer-force-complete > skip the empty completion, so the user would have to hit RET rather > than C-j to select the exact text he typed.