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From: Christopher Wellons <wellons@nullprogram.com>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Switch to DEF from INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read.
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:11:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3jdgnqe.fsf@susie.zeus.nullprogram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21u5lbqld.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi>

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

>> I agree that this behaves better, but the empty content with completing-read
>> looks a bit confusing (if arrow keys or tab aren't pressed)

You're right. Taking a look at this with completing-read I see it's not
obvious what defaulting will do.

> we could also drop the default/initial input:

The default is usually what I want to select, so I like being able to
just hit tab/enter to select it.

>> I don't know how ido-replaced completing-read (just ido-completing-read ?)
>> works there, though.

I'm using ido-ubiquitous, which installs ido-completing-read overtop
completing-read along with some compatability tweaks.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-23  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 16:44 [PATCH] Switch to DEF from INITIAL-INPUT in completing-read Christopher Wellons
2013-08-21 19:19 ` Tomi Ollila
2013-08-22 17:08   ` Tomi Ollila
2013-08-23  2:11     ` Christopher Wellons [this message]
2013-08-24  7:18       ` Tomi Ollila

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