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

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 20:04, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > The current model I am using assumes that selecting-read is passed a
> > list of objects, and each object can have sub-objects (children).
>
> What is the semantics of selecting an object that has children?  Can
> you give an example of such use case with one of the UIs we have today
> that supports completion?

Choosing a directory or a mail folder comes to mind. One occasionally
wants to say “I want to install this program into this directory, even
though it has subdirectories” or “I want to set up my filter to move
mail into this folder, even though it has subfolders”.