From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Better vertical-ness in ido-mode?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:30:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9pfivzl.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CACeWA3iiAyhq_q3kB_ihbm6-6+rV7R-RYOp3Wz0YO4bofhj1Rg@mail.gmail.com
> I've tried helm, and it's way too overkill for this small task. It's much
> too heavyweight, uses buffers and leaves them sitting around, and does way
> too many things. Now ido-mode is *almost* perfect for completion and
> narrowing when used vertically. It just has a few quirks because it was
> never imagined to be used this way by the developers.
On a related note: it might be interesting to change icomplete.el such
that it can display the completions using a tooltip frame rather than
"inline" in the minibuffer.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-03 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-02 18:11 Better vertical-ness in ido-mode? Steven Degutis
2013-04-03 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-04-03 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-03 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 0:00 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-04 15:06 ` Tom
2013-04-04 15:16 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-04 15:57 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-04 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 6:26 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-05 12:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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