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bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode
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Jambunathan K |
Subject: |
bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:02:53 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> The problem is in the displayed string. Why not push "" to prospects
>> when most-is-exact. I think completions are cycling but the displayed
>> string is not.
>
> The problem is that we want the display to indicate that the current
> field is an exact match. Currently this is visible thanks to the "{| ...}".
> So if we want to let the empty string move elsewhere (and hence
> potentially off-screen), we need another way to indicate that we have an
> exact match.
RET pushes the minibuffer contents.
C-j pushes the head of the list.
I think appending, "[Complete, but not unique]????" should serve as a
cue that one can simply RET.
>> Is removal of leading space really necessary?
>
> No, it just makes a lot of sense in the current situation. Note that if
> we let the empty string appear elsewhere, we may also want to use
> "a | | b" instead of "a | | b", tho it's clearly less important.
This could be an aside.
I never could come up with a sensible explanation for magic number 5
down below.
,----
| (determ (unless (or (eq t compare) (eq t most-try)
| (= (setq compare (1- (abs compare)))
| (length most)))
| (concat open-bracket
| (cond
| ((= compare (length name))
| ;; Typical case: name is a prefix.
| (substring most compare))
| ,----
| | ((< compare 5) most)
| `----
|
| (t (concat "..." (substring most compare))))
| close-bracket)))
`----
> Stefan
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Jambunathan K, 2012/12/04
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/04
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Jambunathan K, 2012/12/04
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/04
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Jambunathan K, 2012/12/04
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/04
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode,
Jambunathan K <=
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/11
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Drew Adams, 2012/12/11
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Kevin Rodgers, 2012/12/12
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Drew Adams, 2012/12/12
bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Jambunathan K, 2012/12/04
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Jambunathan K, 2012/12/13
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/17
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Jambunathan K, 2012/12/17
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2012/12/17
- bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode, Jambunathan K, 2012/12/17