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: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:00:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83a9pfiqxp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365091321 9688 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2013 16:02:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:02:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 04 18:02:29 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 1UNmcO-0004D1-DV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:02:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNmbz-0006lw-Bi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNmbG-00060D-J5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNmb5-0004UB-P7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNmb5-0004TY-GV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNmbR-0003Pz-Kj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:01:29 +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 ; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:01:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:01:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 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:YRhCSgXo4Rc1ILw/KZBZ2Nn2kco= 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:89989 Archived-At: >> >> it might be interesting to change icomplete.el such that it can >> >> display the completions using a tooltip frame [...] > These ideas seem like overkill. I didn't mean it as "the solution to your local problem". I just think it's a good idea in itself, and your request reminded me of it. Such a "completion list in a frame/box" is already implemented in a few different ways for auto-complete/company-mode. > The current technique ido-mode uses is great, Agreed, it's very lightweight yet effective. And the trick you use to display it "one per line" is neat and works surprisingly well (I was afraid it would cause the text to jump around too much). I'd welcome a patch that makes it work for icomplete-mode as well. Stefan