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From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce gnus-completing-read
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:36:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxr1txk4.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyl91vkd.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:07:14 -0500")

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On Tue, Sep 28 2010, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> Thanks for the patch, I think it's very useful.  Are there any specific
> completion styles and behavior (e.g. `gnus-use-ido') you'd recommend?  I
> don't use ido so I don't know how it's useful.  Some documentation would
> be helpful, even if minimal, for what your patch does in the manual.  I
> think it should go in the Gnus news file, too, because it's a pretty
> major change across Gnus.

I'll add that in the manual, for sure.
I use ido for everything, so I can recommend it, but I know people who
do not like it and prefer ibuffer-style shell. Florian Ragwitz patch
will add that too, so… :-)

> The default gnus-completion-styles appends 'substring to whatever else
> the user has if it's not present (the docstring should reflect that).

Good point.

> Should we add 'partial-completion as well?  Or 'initials?  There seem to
> be many places where gnus-completing-read makes sense with a different
> completion style from the normal one.

I'm not against it, but I've a little knowledge of completion-styles, I
just moved existing code in gnus-completing-read, so suggestions are
welcome!

-- 
Julien Danjou
// ᐰ <julien@danjou.info>   http://julien.danjou.info

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-28 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28 15:35 Julien Danjou
2010-09-28 15:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2010-09-28 15:55 ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-09-28 16:04   ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-28 19:31     ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-09-28 20:47       ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-29 15:19         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-29 21:47           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30  8:05             ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-30  9:42               ` Robert Pluim
2010-09-30  9:56                 ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-30  6:46           ` Reiner Steib
2010-09-30 10:23             ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-09-30 10:44               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 11:33                 ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-09-30 11:36                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 11:42                     ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-09-30 12:20                       ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-30 12:54                         ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-09-30 13:29                           ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-30 16:33                           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 16:48                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 16:55                               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:13                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-30 17:22                                   ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-09-30 17:39                                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:41                                       ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-09-30 17:49                                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01  1:01                                           ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-10-01  9:43                                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 10:13                                               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 17:47                                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01  9:00                                       ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-30 17:06                               ` Florian Ragwitz
2010-10-01  6:17                           ` Copyright assignments, policies, conventions (was: [PATCH] Introduce gnus-completing-read) Reiner Steib
2010-10-01 13:51                             ` Copyright assignments, policies, conventions Štěpán Němec
2010-09-30 12:13                   ` [PATCH] Introduce gnus-completing-read Štěpán Němec
2010-09-28 15:55 ` Dan Christensen
2010-09-28 16:00   ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-28 16:02     ` Julien Danjou
2010-09-28 20:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-28 20:36   ` Julien Danjou [this message]
2010-09-28 21:08     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-01 15:57 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-01 18:21   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 23:45     ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-02  2:21       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-02 17:48         ` Matt Lundin

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