From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Wiesner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:33:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384882442 3449 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2013 17:34:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:34:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 19 18:34:09 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1VipBe-0008UB-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:34:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VipBe-0004wy-0z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VipBZ-0004tU-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VipBY-0002uI-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:34:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qe0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c02::232]:49676) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VipBY-0002t0-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qe0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 1so5323758qee.37 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:33:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=rwGB4XZ4Og3Hf1kxYE9Qjskg3NOne097UB635V/76uU=; b=uNmiagCSKs9LHXTHfOSR3Ui0nfoQIi9YE4Ovws5UR2hNPl/695ejMkkTlnh4ev/uTJ jPt+s6JyTvYksqYndnrlfgFRpcZTsjBSFtu2DAKYIXTpDLesvdFBfAYKjXX6gUpUidNX 0bbqGWlRV16iXpT38+hxokTExrME8eNyVHY+PXIOFbTDPwsMhXDo9R2FuUQ3kcf/o1Xy tNruK33rUh5GsUJUbkwezEAPXCgeosybxxCJRaFTNNvWSYj2deRro3/A5//wnRjA2ghF 3PoOaWfDjubARaTR5nHcZ51NlSTjCDXy8IdPmFbUE7Ym8b8WREDKXw8yo+58N608PjZJ b5Vg== X-Received: by 10.224.64.73 with SMTP id d9mr44889565qai.83.1384882439343; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:33:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.224.185.15 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:33:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c02::232 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165393 Archived-At: 2013/11/18 Ted Zlatanov : > In "(emacs.info) Completion Commands" there is help for using the > rudimentary buffer to select completion matches. I was struck by how > hard to use this was, compared to more recent packages like these: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoComplete > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CompanyMode > > Is there any chance the default Emacs appearance for selecting > completion matches can be improved (not necessarily by default) for > 24.4? I would help with this but don't know what's "state of the art" > and if there's already work in this direction. You may want to look at the ido-at-point package at https://github.com/katspaugh/ido-at-point, which uses IDO to prompt for completion candidates in the minibuffer.