From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Better vertical-ness in ido-mode? Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <83a9pfiqxp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365088027 3284 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2013 15:07:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:07:07 +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 17:07:35 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 1UNllB-0008KT-BI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:07:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNlkm-0008TK-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNlkT-0008Rx-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:06:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNlkN-0008Od-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNlkN-0008OB-CQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:06:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNlkc-0007rP-AM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:06:54 +0200 Original-Received: from 94-21-19-124.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.19.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:06:54 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-19-124.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:06:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.19.124 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.14) 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:89986 Archived-At: Steven Degutis gmail.com> writes: > These ideas seem like overkill. The current technique ido-mode > uses is great, it just could use a different visual > representation when displayed vertically, that's all. I'm sure > it can't be that hard, maybe forking ido-mode and hard-coding > it would be sufficient. In that case it would make more sense to use Helm. Helm uses a vertical display by default, so the best solution would be to create some kind of a bridge between them, so that ido provides the backend and Helm the frontend.