From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: feature/completions-highlight-modifications e3c5b99 3/6: Add completions-highlight-mode initial implementation.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:31:36 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc2212ed-2d85-46aa-8850-c14971065c7f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9e53v1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
> > Icicles uses `C-insert' to move the cursor back and
> > forth between the minibuffer and *Completions*. It
> > moves between the current candidate in the minibuffer
> > (from cycling) to/from the same candidate in
> > *Completions*.
>
> What the default completions implementation is still missing
> is a command/key to insert the selected completion
> from the the *Completions* buffer to the minibuffer
> without exiting the minibuffer.
Does it have a key that moves from a completion candidate
in the minibuffer (e.g. from cycling) to the same candidate
in *Completions*? That's also missing, AFAIK, in addition
to placing the current completion in the minibuffer as you
cycle. No?
The same key should be used for both operations: minibuffer
to *Completions* and *Completions* to minibuffer. And it
should go to the "current" completion candidate in each case.
And it should be a key that's not ordinarily used for editing,
if it's made available in the minibuffer. For example, we
shouldn't use a key such as `insert'.
___
It's already the case that perfectly fine self-inserting keys
(`?', `SPC') have been excluded, in the minibuffer, from their
ordinary behavior (self-inserting).
That was misguided, IMO. It took us decades to finally get
`SPC' to be self-inserting, and even then, it's only for
`read-file-name', not `completing-read'. Why it was assumed
that completion candidates would/should not contain space
chars or question marks, I don't know.
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2020-11-15 18:41 ` feature/completions-highlight-modifications e3c5b99 3/6: Add completions-highlight-mode initial implementation Stefan Monnier
2020-11-15 22:49 ` Ergus
2020-11-15 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 3:37 ` Ergus
2020-11-16 3:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 5:40 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16 7:39 ` Ergus
2020-11-16 5:38 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16 8:54 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 10:27 ` Ergus
2020-11-16 20:23 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-17 0:46 ` Ergus
2020-11-17 20:02 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-17 20:52 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-18 19:43 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-18 22:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-19 3:25 ` Ergus
2020-11-19 7:45 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-19 10:50 ` Ergus
2020-11-20 9:32 ` Juri Linkov
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2020-11-21 19:30 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-22 13:28 ` Ergus
2020-11-22 20:03 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-22 23:09 ` Ergus
2020-11-23 9:14 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-23 11:46 ` Ergus
2020-11-23 14:13 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-23 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-23 19:44 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-23 20:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-23 23:27 ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-10 1:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-10 8:23 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-25 8:49 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-20 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-11-20 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16 20:28 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 21:31 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-11-18 19:30 ` Juri Linkov
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