From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fast completion with visible cue? Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:13:02 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093562464 25054 80.91.224.253 (26 Aug 2004 23:21:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 01:20:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0TYA-0000CP-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:20:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0Tco-0001rT-7a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0Tcg-0001qv-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:25:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0Tcf-0001qX-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0Tcf-0001qN-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0TXu-0004UI-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0TXs-0002N2-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:20:40 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:20:40 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:20:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6SjSHjfJQthVJ3fe6DRoZgha0uE= 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26549 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26549 David Kastrup writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> Is the following possible with some ad-on package? If so, would it >> make sense to enable the ad-on by default? If not, what do people >> think about adding this feature? > > [...] > >> Now, wouldn't it be Really Nice if the minibuffer prompt would >> contain: >> >> Find File: ~/pro[CURSOR]ects/src/foo/doc/drafts/template/help.txt > > You know C-TAB? No, but it doesn't appear to be exactly what I want, or I'm not using it properly. The feature I'm thinking of shouldn't need to be initialized on certain directories, which seems to be required for `filecache' (C-TAB). I found `icomplete-mode' which does something quite similar for M-x to what I want for C-x C-f. If only icomplete-mode could match against the find-file history ring. The user interface is too complicated to be on by default, though, but if it were simplified (and could match in the find-file history ring), it is approaching what I originally wanted. Andreas Schwab writes: > What about previous-complete-history-element? How do I use it?