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Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:36:20 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:10:48 +0200
>
> >> > Many people access `previous-history-element' in the minibuffer through
> >> > the up arrow, so I hope it is not commandeered for this purpose.
> >>
> >> The web browsers solve this problem by combining completions for
> >> history and suggestions in the same list (separated by a horizontal line).
> >
> > The problem with that is that the resulting list is frustratingly
> > long.
>
> The browsers put the most frequently visited history items at the top.
And therein lies the problem: I frequently cannot locate the history
item I need in that list.
> As I see icomplete does the same when displaying completions in the
> minibuffer. So items could be sorted either by frequency or by recency
> in the *Completions* buffer as well.
That only solves part of the use cases. My typical history even for a
single day is very long, and will many times defeat these strategies.
We need to have a solution for such situations, which I believe is not
uncommon in Emacs uses.
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, (continued)
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Stefan Monnier, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Stefan Monnier, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Stefan Monnier, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Josh, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Juri Linkov, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Juri Linkov, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Stefan Monnier, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Dmitry Gutov, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/11/19