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: ido-completing-read and substrings of choices Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:22:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fvz9taoh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874nfpsze4.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364995381 24246 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2013 13:23:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 13:23:01 +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 15:23:29 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 1UNNey-0001Yv-L5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:23:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46479 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNeZ-0003GB-Th for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNeJ-00037w-Dg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNeF-000878-8a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNeF-00086u-1o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNNea-0001Fo-Jg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:23:04 +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 15:23:04 +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 15:23:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 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:FsczyHHf752p5oVlktOD4WGHN8g= 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:89931 Archived-At: > 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