From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New completion mode
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 04:26:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irpc3qnm.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bqv6av4t.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I've never quite liked the completions buffer. :-) It seems to break
> to flow when typing, while the Firefox approach seems so natural.
The "dynamically update list of completions on each keystroke" behavior
of firefox is great (though maybe not practical for emacs because of
speed issues).
The "fill in the rest of your input without being asked" behavior of
firefox sucks. I hate it... it constantly gets in the way when I don't
_want_ to complete. Do not do this (it makes even less sense in Emacs
than in firefox, as Emacs doesn't default to automatically deleting the
selection).
Of course when implementing an Emacs extension, it's better to err on
the side of being consistent with the rest of Emacs.
-Miles
--
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
--Albert Einstein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-14 19:26 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
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 [this message]
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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