From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Liu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ido-completing-read and substrings of choices Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:47:16 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87fvz9taoh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874nfpsze4.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364922623 19213 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2013 17:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 02 19:10:47 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 1UN4jO-00041K-5s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:10:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4iz-00032G-FQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42049) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4Mh-0006pc-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4Mb-0001uP-N2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f52.google.com ([209.85.160.52]:46704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4Mb-0001u9-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f52.google.com with SMTP id mc8so344272pbc.39 for ; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:47:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:references:face:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mGAmO30/K6ZU9txdujsVNeRq5aPlLW5OHmmay5nrA2E=; b=iyPKg9W89R4vW8esWvWosrc+T9EPN/bugREPr7a7mYCykqoQRMrVrIcTmlsrQdzQWe MNIQHXZPYGuFQvlbtYxKG0766fWLR3iCLLiPWEUiRobwcjkTt/p+K+Z8PZiEohIEiFHW jS/7LbUROKaFp9auFG1ICicdXODgpAK0ORBn7B66rE0jAtCOZVi0h7oeTw//iOBgSn2s OWtgGHtsww/bw8IZ1WpPkNRwkbPUUwoQJYkPTmLEelpGKuPu9o1n+xDDwbYc9uf2FGgq EafJxOAcmai55wn0cpuPgAM8LT6RyF1Cw6JFJHRRwppS5szmQ2pFcsgOXUNBPf9pk1RT xCLg== X-Received: by 10.66.144.69 with SMTP id sk5mr26723428pab.69.1364921232161; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([111.161.47.175]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id xl10sm3035207pac.15.2013.04.02.09.47.09 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:47:11 -0700 (PDT) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAGFBMVEUKDAg1NjRWV1V9fnyg op/DxcLk5uP8/voi63ReAAAACXBIWXMAAAWJAAAFiQFtaJ36AAAAB3RJTUUH1goZAgAz00bgXgAA AeVJREFUKM9lk0Fz2jAQhQXJD3CCO70CmcC1YMtcWyTZ14Bl69xats4N9r6/3zWQBlodNKNPu/s0 b1cCQFuZGpfVVh3vAvBJolIXRkapSuoRUtIdFyo1Y5xSdlAj7OtvD1XnXxmWRi+eWgcxyCed1lVV B1CrKyujMoi+eLA5kU1SsjoHlW+nQjTtFxk4MXgrOxvIqzoTZR8XgPaLl419zgsMaSGFPiUOZCIh thsx5Xy9NsK8Kwf/JoQgMxcVJ301HKkcSWaT0O7FY056J4U9xcYfnmVXG4801lW6lqwu2nKFZoHC HuzvaTVndZ+LaRQgZdthXw1cpynEkLEwyFHXk/aIxNQ6QeooJuzPMB+wn+D7JJNsiCcVA13/A3h/ xE9J+WidpAwoYNmRFwyvSRhNVtsdaAewzZZP5uw82QL9+tyNfocyP0McAzICUr5Mk9RdIjWasUNx aIIt6NK4ZtXIMdfMQt3nuMAyWbLI4DqZ4xPq/ag8jPond4XU/cLuOgw6XCFX/YCUfcDAMMH58fD4 G9kDchwfqVefkBwup2uZM+Q4WhJt5jN3AxXCsaS2yXEDuWgS8VOzW0gFjhEPmLyFMKBFaLb1HRwc DiaKwx0EeTMRYnYPQRW3PP4HApvlMv0PttX5v/D6Aws3IOSEwzmLAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC In-Reply-To: <874nfpsze4.fsf@wanadoo.es> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:52:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (OS X 10.8.3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.160.52 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:10:12 -0400 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:89901 Archived-At: On 2013-04-02 23:52 +0800, =D3scar Fuentes wrote: > The documentation on ido.el is centered around selecting files and > buffers. However, ido-mode is so convenient that more and more people > are using ido-completing-read as a replacement for completing-read on > lots of contexts. IMHO ido-completing-read deserves move visibility on > the documentation at the top of ido.el or, better, explain the general > goal of ido-mode starting from ido-completing-read and present file and > buffer selection as specific applications. I agree. I actually change completing-read-function to a personally modified ido-completing-read. I am thinking of maintaining ido.el and give it a better documentation. But writing texi doesn't thrill me. Let me think about it. Leo