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Re: tabulated-list-mode needs incremental search option


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: tabulated-list-mode needs incremental search option
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:57:43 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07)

* Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> [2020-11-12 10:35]:
> >> 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".

Fine for me to call it anyhow as long as we agree that we know what we
talk about.

> >> 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.

That would substantially change default habits and behavior. 



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