Completion confusion with gnus-split-methods

Completion confusion with gnus-split-methods

[Mark Boyns]

I've been discussing this with Lars and so far we haven't come up with
a good solution...

Normally gnus-summary-save-article displays a prompt like:

    Save in Unix mail file: (default file) ~/News/

But, when gnus-split-methods has more than one match there is
no default and thus the prompt is:

    Save in Unix mail file: 

At first I didn't know what was going on, but pressing TAB made it
clear that gnus was performing completion of the matching
gnus-split-methods files.

Lars and I haven't been able to come up with a better way handle
the situation.  Some ideas are:

    Save in Unix mail file: (default file1 file2 file3) ~/News/

    Save in Unix mail file: (3 matches) ~/News/

    Save in Unix mail file: (not unique) ~/News/

    Save in Unix mail file: (TAB for completions) ~/News/

    A completions buffer

    Leave it as-is

Any suggestions?

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Re: Completion confusion with gnus-split-methods

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

> Normally gnus-summary-save-article displays a prompt like:
> 
>     Save in Unix mail file: (default file) ~/News/
> 
> But, when gnus-split-methods has more than one match there is
> no default and thus the prompt is:
> 
>     Save in Unix mail file: 
> (...)
> Any suggestions?

Define gnus-split-methods to list the choices by priority and use the
first choice as default.

>     A completions buffer

Is there wa way to let the initial completions buffer contain the
matched choices and let the user complete these, but still allow the
user to switch (in an intuitive way) to normal filename completion?

Maybe let the "default" completions start with "*", for example..?


Regards,

Hallvard

Re: Completion confusion with gnus-split-methods

[Per Abrahamsen]

You can cheat and put the completions in the prompt history.  That way
you will get normal file completion with TAB and use arrow `up' and
`down' to move through the defaults.

>>>  Save in Unix mail file: (`M-p' for defaults) ~/News/

Re: Completion confusion with gnus-split-methods

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> You can cheat and put the completions in the prompt history.  That way
> you will get normal file completion with TAB and use arrow `up' and
> `down' to move through the defaults.
> 
> >>>  Save in Unix mail file: (`M-p' for defaults) ~/News/

That's the best suggestion I've seen so far.  If we couple this with
Hallvard's suggestion that the first match is the most default, then
if the user just types `RET', then the first match is used.  

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