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Re: Inline completion preview


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Inline completion preview
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:58:40 +0300

> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:55:47 +0100
> Cc: me@eshelyaron.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 1:18 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>  don't see any catastrophe in having features that can only work
> > on GUI frames, although we should try to avoid that.  For example,
> > popup menus and dialog boxes were not supported on TTY frames for 2
> > decades, and we didn't consider that to be such a bad thing.
> 
> Because popup menus and dialog boxes aren't nearly as useful as
> a completion popup.  Who even uses the mouse?

TTY menus are supported even without the mouse.

> Let's do this for both TUI and GUI emacs.

Like I said: ideally, that's what we should do.



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