From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62700 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New completion mode Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:42:58 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <86irpe1a4h.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144907125 19444 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2006 05:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11227@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 13 07:45:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTudv-0002D2-2q for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FTudo-0005gt-00; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FTude-0005go-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FTudd-0007wf-1Y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FTudc-0004Po-00 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FTuda-0002AO-Fj for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org ([80.91.231.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:45:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Kissing the Pink's _Naked_: "Maybe This Day" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bjZdxzwp3RexbFYNAJ0vC5XoKIY= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62700 Archived-At: Wolfram Fenske writes: > Yes, bbdb sorta does this, you should have a look at it. (What's the copyright status of bbdb? I vaguely seem to recall that it can't be included in Emacs...) > 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. I've never quite liked the completions buffer. :-) It seems to break to flow when typing, while the Firefox approach seems so natural. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen