Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico

[Philip Kaludercic]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>>> 1. It seems to me that the UI you have in mind is closer to
>>> 'transient' than to 'completing-read'.
>>
>> Perhaps, but my understanding of transient is that it tries to be a
>> better C-u.
>
> By 'transient', I meant the ELPA transient package.  My understanding
> is that it makes it possible to navigate through a tree, with a visual 
> feedback in a popup buffer.

But transient popups are static, right? You (usually) wouldn't compute
them on the fly. I get what you mean from the UI perspective, I don't
think that transient would be a good basis for something like
selecting-read.

-- 
        Philip K.