From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: 16226@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16226: [patch] icomplete can't display completions on initial display
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:45:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvppom2trt.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52B90521.5080706@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:53:05 -0800")
> The next problem for me is the obnoxious prompt: when icomplete is enabled,
> the default choice is readily apparent. switch-to-buffer, however, still
> enthusiastically displays the "default" choice in the prompt, and this hint
> becomes stale once we start cycling through completions. Right now, I'm
> using minibuf-eldef to kill that part of the prompt, but there must
> be a better way.
I think minibuf-eldef is the way to go, yes.
> Would you be opposed to a C level variable that stopped completions
> functions from adding the default choice bit to the prompt in the
> first place?
That wouldn't work, since the default is added "by hand" at
tens/hundreds of places.
Stefan
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-23 15:47 bug#16226: [patch] icomplete can't display completions on initial display Daniel Colascione
2013-12-24 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-24 3:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-12-24 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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