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From: Sean O'Rourke <seano@cs.ucla.edu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Second tab key for completion
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:09:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y75623iq.fsf@zone2-a9e8d6b8.host.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4854F7B0.2020408@gmail.com

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> Some month ago I started testing an idea for using the second tab key
> for completion. I think I told about the idea here then.
>
> [...]
>
> Any thoughts or ideas?

This looks useful.  I have had something similar but much more
primitive for awhile in Sepia, a Perl editing package I maintain.
Specifically, tab tries to indent, but if no indentation occurs,
it will try to expand an abbrev or function name before point.  I
think I prefer your "second tab" version, though.

In briefly trying it out, I think there's too much visual
feedback by default.  In particular, changing the mode line
causes a distracting flicker away from where you are editing, and
seems redundant when you already show a mark on the active line.

Sean





  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-15 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-15 11:06 Second tab key for completion Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-15 14:09 ` Sean O'Rourke [this message]
2008-06-15 14:23   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-16  7:06     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)

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