From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:48:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182116946 17167 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 21:49:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:49:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 23:49:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I02cG-00080v-Qn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:49:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I02cG-00013y-DG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:49:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I02cD-00012I-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I02cC-00011W-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I02cC-00011Q-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I02cC-000825-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I02c9-0002pn-R9; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:48:53 -0400 In-reply-to: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73171 Archived-At: > I don't understand why it makes sense to do completion on regexps. > Would you please explain? This is, in my experience, the single most important (useful) feature that Icicles has to offer. It is way out in front of any other Icicles feature or combination of features in terms of its practical value. The benefits are well documented in the doc I sent you (which is also on the wiki). Two of the basic features of Icicles are (1) cycling among matching candidates and (2) being able to match a regexp, not just a prefix. Are we talking about the same thing? I am talking about this 2. My `customize-apropos', `customize-apropos-faces', `customize-apropos-groups', `customize-apropos-options', and `repeat-complex-command' all use `completing-read' to read the regexp. but you seem to be talking about entering a regexp to do completion feature.