From: Wolfram Fenske <Wolfram.Fenske@Student.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>
Subject: Re: New completion mode
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:29:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86irpe1a4h.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34q10h0aq.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:30:21 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> You're on an address header:
>
> To:
>
> and you type
>
> To: la
>
> Emacs would then show you the possible completions, ranked in the
> most-likely order. (Likelihood might be based on number of times the
> address has been used, and how recently it was used, and perhaps
> other... things.)
>
> How to display the list, though? One possibility would be in the echo
> area. Just display the ten most highly ranked ones, and choose them
> with, say, `M-n M-n RET' or the like. Or pop up a small helper
> buffer. Or a frame?
>
> Or has anybody written this already? Does bbdb do this? Perhaps I
> should have a peek...
Yes, bbdb sorta does this, you should have a look at it. You type
some characters and when you press TAB, a *Completions* buffer is
shown on the bottom of the screen. It's very similar to the
completion function of "find-file." bbdb doesn't do any ranking,
though, as far as I can tell.
If you still want to implement this, I think a completions buffer is
less intrusive (better) than what Firefox does. I always feel
Firefox's popup gets a little in the way of my typing, but I can't
tell exactly why.
Regards
Wolfram
--
A: Yes.
>Q: Are you sure?
>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-13 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-11 10:30 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-11 15:40 ` Sam Steingold
2006-04-11 15:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-11 16:02 ` Sam Steingold
2006-04-12 6:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-12 7:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-12 11:13 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-12 11:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-12 13:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-12 14:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-13 2:29 ` Wolfram Fenske [this message]
2006-04-13 5:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-13 16:19 ` Wolfram Fenske
[not found] ` <m3bqv6av4t.fsf-qBEgNjfYAPolG3ThADb//ti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2006-04-13 17:31 ` Jochen Küpper
2006-04-14 10:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-16 19:50 ` Use of ecomplete.el in message.el (was: New completion mode) Reiner Steib
2006-04-16 20:30 ` Use of ecomplete.el in message.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-17 11:40 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-17 13:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-17 0:23 ` Steve Youngs
2006-04-17 9:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-18 11:17 ` New completion mode Simon Josefsson
2006-04-18 13:04 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-18 13:46 ` Simon Josefsson
2006-04-18 15:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-18 21:07 ` Simon Josefsson
2006-04-21 23:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-14 19:26 ` Miles Bader
2006-04-15 5:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-18 22:22 ` Wolfram Fenske
2006-04-19 7:26 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-04-20 12:14 ` Steve Youngs
2006-04-20 13:07 ` gnus-replace-in-string: Avoid inf-loop in XEmacs (was: New completion mode) Reiner Steib
2006-04-20 14:18 ` gnus-replace-in-string: Avoid inf-loop in XEmacs Michael Olson
2006-04-20 15:23 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-22 4:36 ` Michael Olson
2006-04-20 16:06 ` Steve Youngs
2006-04-20 17:06 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-21 6:32 ` New completion mode Steve Youngs
2006-04-22 0:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-24 8:55 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-04-30 9:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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