From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Better vertical-ness in ido-mode? Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:30:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364995858 31240 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2013 13:30:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 13:30:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 03 15:31:26 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1UNNmg-0006om-9N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:31:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNmH-0005NQ-Eo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNll-0005I8-Te for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:30:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNlj-0002gm-RU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNlj-0002gT-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:30:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNm5-0006MH-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.180.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:30:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f+fynFHA87frBUrUR4zjHCkBsxw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89933 Archived-At: > 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