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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ido-completing-read and substrings of choices
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:22:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfvz7iwi0.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874nfpsze4.fsf@wanadoo.es

> The documentation on ido.el is centered around selecting files and
> buffers. However, ido-mode is so convenient that more and more people
> are using ido-completing-read as a replacement for completing-read on
> lots of contexts. IMHO ido-completing-read deserves move visibility on
> the documentation at the top of ido.el or, better, explain the general
> goal of ido-mode starting from ido-completing-read and present file and
> buffer selection as specific applications.

FWIW, the default completion code in Emacs has been slowly evolving to
get closer to IDO (e.g. in Emacs-24, C-x b does substring completion).
It will probably never be identical to IDO (because of some fundamental
UI incompatibilities), but feel free to request the addition of
particular IDO features via M-x report-emacs-bug.


        Stefan




      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-03 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-02 11:49 ido-completing-read and substrings of choices Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02 11:54 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-04-02 12:22   ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02 15:13 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-02 15:52   ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-04-02 16:47     ` Leo Liu
2013-04-03 13:22     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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