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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > > 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.

Yes, I meant something like the transient UI, but computed on the fly.  I 
wasn't suggesting to use transient as a basis for something else, my 
remark was only about the look of the UI.