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27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:19:44 +0200

Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
substring completion in that command...


In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 5, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11)
 of 2019-07-08 built on stories
Repository revision: 4b5847b18295bf41a2c3b8c4e5549a494e5af349
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11902000
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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better
 completion
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 13:15:39 -0700 (PDT)

> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
> substring completion in that command...

FWIW, Icicles does that.

Message #11 received at 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36554: 27.0.50;
 Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 16:30:17 -0400

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 13:20, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
> substring completion in that command...

So should is this more of a request for improving ido? Is there any
other "popular" completion mode that you are thinking of?

FWIW, looks like icomplete-mode works with insert-char.

Message #14 received at 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36554: 27.0.50;
 Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:35:04 +0200

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> So should is this more of a request for improving ido? Is there any
> other "popular" completion mode that you are thinking of?
>
> FWIW, looks like icomplete-mode works with insert-char.

If all the other ones do, I guess it's just for ido.  :-)

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36554: 27.0.50;
 Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:48:30 +0300

> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
> substring completion in that command...

C-x 8 C-m *ANGLE TAB

Message #20 received at 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36554: 27.0.50;
 Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:08:47 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
>> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
>> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
>> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
>> substring completion in that command...
>
> C-x 8 C-m *ANGLE TAB

That helps, but ido (and friends) do completion based on words, while
that will also get TRIANGLE, etc...

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Message #23 received at 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36554: 27.0.50;
 Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:00:41 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So should is this more of a request for improving ido? Is there any
>> other "popular" completion mode that you are thinking of?
>>
>> FWIW, looks like icomplete-mode works with insert-char.
>
> If all the other ones do, I guess it's just for ido.  :-)

And...  thinking about it a bit more, it doesn't really make sense for
ido, either, so I'm closing this bug report.

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Message #30 received at 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36554: 27.0.50;
 Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:16:49 +0300

>>> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
>>> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
>>> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
>>> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
>>> substring completion in that command...
>>
>> C-x 8 C-m *ANGLE TAB
>
> That helps, but ido (and friends) do completion based on words, while
> that will also get TRIANGLE, etc...

There is word-based ‘partial-completion’ in completion-styles-alist.

Message #33 received at 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36554: 27.0.50;
 Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:55:59 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>> That helps, but ido (and friends) do completion based on words, while
>> that will also get TRIANGLE, etc...
>
> There is word-based ‘partial-completion’ in completion-styles-alist.

Ah, right, so (setq completion-styles '(partial-completion basic emacs22))
gets me the method that I wanted.

Thanks!

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