From: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Better vertical-ness in ido-mode?
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 19:00:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeWA3hi9tPRW3EVBLnzDqyWZP8Ng=bDa6xHmA6Su+BHepT+nw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvip43crtx.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
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These ideas seem like overkill. The current technique ido-mode uses is
great, it just could use a different visual representation when displayed
vertically, that's all. I'm sure it can't be that hard, maybe forking
ido-mode and hard-coding it would be sufficient.
-Steven
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:
> >> it might be interesting to change icomplete.el such that it can
> >> display the completions using a tooltip frame
> > Yuck! Tooltip frames are ugly, especially if they are large.
>
> I don't see what makes them particularly ugly. I don't claim they're
> ideal for the job at hand, but they might be "the closest" we have (tho
> maybe we could use a standard frame, and be extra careful to strip its
> mode-line, header-line, tool-bar, menu-bar, ...).
>
> > Why not pop up a GUI dialog instead?
>
> I don't see how that could work for icomplete (which displays remaining
> completion candidates in an unobtrusive way).
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-04 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-02 18:11 Better vertical-ness in ido-mode? Steven Degutis
2013-04-03 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-03 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 0:00 ` Steven Degutis [this message]
2013-04-04 15:06 ` Tom
2013-04-04 15:16 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-04 15:57 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-04 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 6:26 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-05 12:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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