From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why fido, icycles, ido, icomplete
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 22:57:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDnm53RWEogiJyCGwSzk1pFxBcccDSq=6_E_GOdM0JhH1d9LQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 10:39 PM Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Now, I wish I could just put 'flex' (and many other things) in
> > ido-mode.
>
> Ido has a `flex' completion style. Maybe it is a different one?
>
Yes it is. I created the flex completion style so it could be used
across the board, in every completion frontend, not just icomplete.
> Should it? This is like the recent discussion about implementing new
> commands on VC: insisting on a common interface hampers diversity and
> innovation. We must accept that different tools sometimes deserve
> specific user interfaces.
>
Sure, but we're not talking about user-facing interfaces here, rather about
interfaces between reusable components of Emacs.
> > This
> > means it doesn't work nicely for M-x, C-h f, and many many other
> > completion situations.
>
> Ido works nicely here for those cases with just a few lines on my .emacs
> and an extra package installed (ido-hacks).
>
But it won't work with, say SLY's capf-abiding completion table.
Or Eglot's (or lsp-mode's for that matter).
I think the name of the package you use to do that also
says something about the quality of the integration. :-)
> This indicates to me that ido is more hackable than your message
> implies. I'm not denying that it could be much better on that regard,
> though.
>
But those additions only bring it farther away from integrating
into Emacs's completion facilities, and reaping those benefits.
You'll have to write a package to make ido-mode use Helm's
super-special matching styles, but you won't for icomplete.
But I didn't mean to knock ido-mode. When I'm in a tight spot
on someone else's contorted Emacs, it's still my goto M-x.
It sounds like you're an ido-mode fan, so please try out
fido-mode and tell me what you think is missing from it. I
know a lot is, and I want to improve it.
João
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[not found] <20191106212018.cnddqzlo5rpdhi6s.ref@Ergus>
2019-11-06 21:20 ` Why fido, icycles, ido, icomplete Ergus
2019-11-06 21:30 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2019-11-06 22:27 ` Ergus
2019-11-06 22:03 ` João Távora
2019-11-06 22:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-06 22:57 ` João Távora [this message]
2019-11-06 23:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-07 0:36 ` João Távora
2019-11-07 1:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-07 1:21 ` Ergus
2019-11-07 1:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-07 10:09 ` João Távora
2019-11-07 18:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-06 23:21 ` Ergus
2019-11-06 23:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-07 0:47 ` Ergus
2019-11-07 2:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-07 4:59 ` Ergus
2019-11-07 18:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-07 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-07 20:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-07 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-07 22:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-07 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-07 22:34 ` João Távora
2019-11-07 0:27 ` João Távora
2019-11-07 1:09 ` Ergus
2019-11-07 10:39 ` João Távora
2019-11-07 15:00 ` Ergus
2019-11-08 17:54 ` Filipp Gunbin
2019-11-08 18:10 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-08 18:45 ` Nicolas Semrau
2019-11-08 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 21:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-08 22:54 ` João Távora
2019-11-08 23:11 ` Ergus
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