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Re: tabulated-list-mode needs incremental search option


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: tabulated-list-mode needs incremental search option
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:18:35 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> The term "incremental search" is too ambiguous to use here.  You had a better
>> alternative below: "incremental matching" or "incremental narrowing".
>> And "incremental completion" would be too specific to icomplete.el.

Actually, "incremental narrowing" is also too specific to 'C-x n n'.
But as Drew pointed out, the best term would be "incremental filtering".

>> > What hapens when using ivy-mode is that modeline jumps up-down when
>> > completing.
>>
>> The modeline doesn't jump up-down when a list of completions
>> is displayed in the pop-up buffer *Completions*.
>
> How do I set it?

You don't need to set it, this is the default behavior of completion.
It still doesn't allow selecting a completion from the *Completions* buffer
without leaving the minibuffer, but this shortcoming should be eliminated.



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