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29.0.50; Imenu does not pop up the Completions eagerly
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Message #23 received at 52389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On 2021-12-11, 22:16 +0200, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> wrote:
>>> I think the safest way to solve this long-standing problem without
>>> surprising users is to introduce a new variable whose logic is handled
>>> correctly, and mark imenu-eager-completion-buffer as deprecated.
>>
>> Sounds good to me. (The new variable could be an alias of the old name,
>> but have a name with the opposite meaning, and then things would
>> continue to work for everybody.)
>
> This is a good opportunity for generalization.
> Like there is icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input,
> would it be possible to create a new user option
> e.g. minibuffer-auto-show-completions, and allow
> to customize what commands should use it.
> Then it could be like completion-auto-select
> recently proposed by Philip.
That is possible with my mct package on GNU ELPA. It has the option of
a passlist for commands that should eagerly pop up the Completions'
buffer.
[ Philip mentioned mct in those patches. ]
Note, however, that the case here with Imenu is different because even
if you pop the completions eagerly upon M-x imenu, you still need to
handle the case of nested Imenu entries. That is what the user option
imenu-eager-completion-buffer helps deal with. Actually, what prompted
me to report this bug was due to an issue in the mct repo, where I
discovered the confusing doc string of that Imenu user option:
<https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/mct/-/issues/12>.
--
Protesilaos Stavrou
https://protesilaos.com
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