From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Degutis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Better vertical-ness in ido-mode? Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 19:00:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83a9pfiqxp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b15b0a5a54c4504d97da988 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365033676 31399 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2013 00:01:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 04 02:01:43 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1UNXca-0004w8-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:01:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNXcB-0008OE-9I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNXbu-0008O2-Dc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNXbk-0007Sh-9p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pd0-f176.google.com ([209.85.192.176]:48595) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNXbk-0007SR-2L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:00:48 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pd0-f176.google.com with SMTP id r11so1111005pdi.7 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:00:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=w1f0pon/cscmWRtn8fOLmqyDRjpT0dZS0ew7MuW0nQw=; b=XoSAzexx3zw4SIUbJAn0Hxf/BvIWy8Nz6jmQbTTdqvXQ0Lm8dE9+oaIpRyee2Wq8/B wKvffHGJ2GfMP3BKVXMKB9trKgvAQqbjmE7ZbP4FIoVhNdfUHz0vkJiLb7DBahq2QIet cj+PjP5slKn0mNiCtk404aQRvl5lZnGNqfOHJrqduLEhzc1WGHDlNMqRjA2ojPkYjQqU C1UsFugR28wmXhY7rnNpkhkM4F2NEEmYbuDRcLTCmo/jSjpWh9a6xXoUoOj4IqSErWB1 HZsHhZsUfeFJBJxEQmRdPnQeFKGWxSK82rDYQPMgl61wGbtWdwgxr/YJ/pVdwpSWIo8H DI6w== X-Received: by 10.66.242.73 with SMTP id wo9mr6355185pac.59.1365033647162; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.70.6.100 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Apr 2013 17:00:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.192.176 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89966 Archived-At: --047d7b15b0a5a54c4504d97da988 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 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 > > > --047d7b15b0a5a54c4504d97da988 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
These ideas seem like overkill. The current technique ido-= mode uses is great, it just could use a different visual representation whe= n displayed vertically, that's all. I'm sure it can't be that h= ard, 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 inter= esting to change icomplete.el such that it can
>> display the completions using a tooltip frame
> Yuck! =A0Tooltip frames are ugly, especially if they are large.

I don't see what makes them particularly ugly. =A0I don't cla= im they're
ideal for the job at hand, but they might be "the closest" we hav= e (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 rem= aining
completion candidates in an unobtrusive way).


=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Stefan



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