Re: Select completions from the minibuffer

[Ergus]

On March 12, 2022 6:29:57 PM GMT+01:00, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 18:04:54 +0100
>> 
>> Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I added a highlight mode for completions in my branch using hooks and
>> > overlays, but I am wondering since then: why we don't have a text
>> > property that highlight the region when the cursor is over the region,
>> > like the `mouse-face` but for the cursor (point)... Is it possible to
>> > implement such thing more or less easily?
>> 
>> Hm, that does sound kind of attractive.  I don't know whether it'd be a
>> lot of work to implement -- Eli?
>
>Isn't it very similar to the region?
>

I don't think so... I think it is more similar to the mouse-face feature / text 
property.

BTW completions already have mouse-face but it doesn't work in terminal+xterm 
mouse mode... But that's a different issue I guess.

-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.