Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:

[Juri Linkov]

>>  * Drew believe that the whole M-: should evolve to something more
>>    like a interactive scratch in the context of current buffer, and
>>    that if TAB does not complete in scratch, it should not complete in
>>    M-:
>
> To be specific, I said this:
>
>> I would prefer to see M-: take on more of the
>> character of a pop-up emacs-lisp-mode buffer:
>> TAB, C-M-q, C-j,..., but with RET still causing
>> eval...  And I'd like to see M-: pretty-print the
>> result (as in pp-eval-expression)

I think it would make sense to change M-: to use the same behavior
as M-! has, i.e. when the number of lines of the result is more than
some threshold then pop-up a buffer in another window with the result.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/