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Re: BIKESHED: completion faces


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: BIKESHED: completion faces
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 23:27:06 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> I've tried to implement my idea, but somehow the added highlighting gets
>> eaten before the buffer is displayed. But the attached patch should 
>> illustrate it anyway.
>
> Regardless of how we implement this, the question remains: do we want to
> highlight the common-part of the prefix/basic completion differently
> from the other cases?

It seems inevitable to have a different set of faces for different
completion styles.  So for the prefix/basic completion the default
could be underline for completions-first-difference (like in menus)
and inheriting completions-common-part from the 'shadow' face
to make the trivial part less prominent.

More complex completion styles could use bold for a new face
to make non-trivial parts more prominent.

>     src/emacs -Q --eval '(setq completion-styles (quote 
> (partial-completion)))'
>     M-x re-b ?
>
> where `re-builder` would be highlighted with a "trivial common part"
> whereas `rename-buffer` would be highlighted differently.
>
> You might consider it as a feature, of course.  But if not, then we'd
> have to first look at all the completions to make sure they all have
> a "trivial common part".

This really looks like a feature - it could help the users
to see the prefix in the completions list.



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