From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:28:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87391ieck9.fsf@gmail.com> <87624nsjes.fsf@gmail.com> <87d2yq9dvi.fsf@gmail.com> <87boe995nq.fsf@gmail.com> <87bodykqlx.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355761733 1042 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2012 16:28:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:28:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12638@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 17 17:29:08 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1TkdYx-0001Ai-Mk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:29:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49297 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkdYk-0002ZI-Dd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:28:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkdYh-0002Z6-8R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkdYd-0000hF-Ay for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:28:51 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkdYd-0000hB-7g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:28:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TkdZq-0003jp-Ab for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:30:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12638 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12638-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12638.135576177914316 (code B ref 12638); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12638) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Dec 2012 16:29:39 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47339 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TkdZS-0003ir-Lw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:29:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:11480) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TkdZQ-0003ik-Ou for 12638@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:29:37 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai0FAG6Zu09FxLDj/2dsb2JhbABEsEiDSYEIghUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIHAW6CZBEA4hCmnGBWIMH X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="210085587" Original-Received: from 69-196-176-227.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.176.227]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 17 Dec 2012 11:28:20 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0A9955912C; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:28:20 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87bodykqlx.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:21:06 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:68648 Archived-At: > The attached patch fixes the issue by sneaking a Ctrl-M in to the try > try completion field. That looks ugly and I don't find the ^M to be very intuitive. Basically there are 2 options: - Let "" be anywhere in the {...} list rather than only at the beginning. This would seem inconvenient if it's not compensated by some other "Complete, but not unique" marker. Your ^M is one such option. We could also keep an empty () (or []), which is fairly logical and might be vaguely intuitive. - Force "" to be at the beginning and have minibuffer-force-complete skip the empty completion, so the user would have to hit RET rather than C-j to select the exact text he typed. Stefan