From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switch-to-completions
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:12:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvws1nfhgi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87einv3e14.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:04:36 +0200")
> I'm not sure what function should take care about finding the right place
> since creation of the *Completions* buffer is shared among several functions:
> `display-completion-list' inserts the text "Possible completions are:\n",
> `completion-setup-function' inserts the help text with one newline or
> two newlines depending on `(display-mouse-p)' or no help text if
> `completion-show-help' is nil.
Good point, maybe minibuffer-completion-help is not the best place, but
it's closer than switch-to-completions.
> And there are many packages that
> don't call `minibuffer-completion-help' - they use something like
> (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Completions*" (display-completion-list ...
Yes, this redundancy sucks, but it's another problem.
> Maybe `switch-to-completions' should simply call `(next-completion 1)'?
> It seems this is the most reliable way to move point to the first completion.
Fine by me. Install your patch for now, but please include a comment
explaining that the cursor-movement should really be done elsewhere.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-19 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 19:45 completions - remove window after use? David Reitter
2009-11-11 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-11 21:26 ` Štěpán Němec
2009-11-11 23:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 9:57 ` Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) Juri Linkov
2009-11-12 10:09 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-11-17 17:45 ` Vertical completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 8:11 ` martin rudalics
2009-11-18 9:59 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 9:47 ` Backward completions (was: Vertical completions) Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18 15:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-18 19:02 ` Backward completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 19:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-19 17:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 17:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-19 18:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-20 9:27 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 17:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-20 21:26 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 19:01 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 19:50 ` Backward completions (was: Vertical completions) Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 17:32 ` Backward completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 18:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 18:36 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-19 19:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 19:30 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18 9:52 ` switch-to-completions (was: Vertical completions) Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 15:48 ` switch-to-completions Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 19:04 ` switch-to-completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 1:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-11-12 10:29 ` Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) Štěpán Němec
2009-11-12 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-12 22:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-12 13:30 ` completions - remove window after use? Lluís
2009-11-12 14:40 ` David Reitter
2009-11-12 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-14 0:30 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-12 3:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-11-12 8:19 ` martin rudalics
2009-11-12 13:31 ` bug#4914: " David Reitter
2009-11-12 17:40 ` martin rudalics
2009-11-12 17:56 ` David Reitter
2009-11-12 19:26 ` martin rudalics
2009-11-17 23:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 8:11 ` martin rudalics
2009-11-23 13:58 ` David Reitter
2009-11-12 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-17 23:41 ` Chong Yidong
[not found] ` <5C420BAC-187B-4B19-BF13-CC1A71745D59@gmail.com>
2010-01-18 17:58 ` David Reitter
2010-01-18 15:09 ` bug#4914: marked as done (completions - remove window after use?) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-11-12 22:36 ` completions - remove window after use? Xavier Maillard
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