From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <877gc5fm30.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87bo1h6wvk.fsf@mail.jurta.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 1384859921 13755 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2013 11:18:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:18:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 19 12:18:46 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1VijKQ-0007OE-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:18:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VijKP-0007pX-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 06:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VijKH-0007pF-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 06:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VijKB-0003D1-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 06:18:37 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VijKB-0003Ct-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 06:18:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VijK8-0007IG-Rr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-21-223-176.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.223.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:18:28 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-223-176.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:18:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 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: 94.21.223.176 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165369 Archived-At: Juri Linkov jurta.org> writes: > In modern UIs, auto-completion works such a way that after you type text > it pops up a drop-down menu with a list of candidates where you can > select one by using and arrow keys. > Helm works like this. You type and the candidates appear automatically. It could also be considered as a possible alternative completion UI.