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Re: Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?)
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Štěpán Němec |
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Re: Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) |
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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:29:29 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-27) |
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Juri Linkov wrote:
> >> And speaking about *Completions*, would it be possible to fill the
> >> completions column-first, not row-first as it is now? I find it quite
> >> unreasonable, as the display is column-wise, but not so filling, making
> >> it harder to quickly skim through the list.
> >
> > I'm not sure why you find it unreasonable, but I'd find it inconvenient
> > when the list overflows the window, to have a column-first listing since
> > I couldn't then first scroll to the interesting area.
>
> It's easier to skim through a list when completions are sorted
> vertically in columns down the screen.
>
> That's what `ls' does by default for the list of files unless
> `-x' (`--format=horizontal') is specified. As well as readline
> completions in bash unless `print-completions-horizontally' is `On'.
>
> The same would be desirable in Emacs, but it has a problem -
> if columns were sorted vertically, Isearch will still visit matches
> horizontally.
I wouldn't really see that as a problem -- it's quite expectable; I
think it could be actually rather confusing if the search would go in
columns, too -- after all, the columns are just how the text is
displayed, there is no "real" boundary between them.
- Re: Backward completions (was: Vertical completions), (continued)
- Re: Backward completions (was: Vertical completions), Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/11/18
- Re: Backward completions, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/19
- Re: Backward completions, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/11/19
- RE: Backward completions, Drew Adams, 2009/11/19
- Re: Backward completions, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/11/19
- RE: Backward completions, Drew Adams, 2009/11/19
- switch-to-completions (was: Vertical completions), Juri Linkov, 2009/11/18
- Re: switch-to-completions, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/18
- Re: switch-to-completions, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/18
- Re: switch-to-completions, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/18
- Re: Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?),
Štěpán Němec <=
- Re: Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/12
- Re: Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?), Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/12
- Re: completions - remove window after use?, Lluís, 2009/11/12
- Re: completions - remove window after use?, David Reitter, 2009/11/12
- Re: completions - remove window after use?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/12
- Re: completions - remove window after use?, Richard Stallman, 2009/11/13
Re: completions - remove window after use?, Xavier Maillard, 2009/11/11
Re: completions - remove window after use?, martin rudalics, 2009/11/12