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bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:00:13 +0200 |
> From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 15:40:22 -0300
> Cc: 51650@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I remain unconvinced. I'll restate the above in a slightly more
> precise manner, but other than that I have nothing to add and if this
> is getting tiresome by all means feel free to close it.
>
> > > Suppose I now abort the process and do `M-x cd ~/Desktop` and then
> > > enter the find-file completion again, I'm in the same situation, yet I
> > > press Tab and I get "not unique" and I have to press Tab again in
> > > order to get the list of candidates. Why should the behavior differ?
> >
> > Because you haven't typed anything yet, so Emacs doesn't know what you
> > have in mind. In the other case, it has some hint.
>
> For me the relevant state includes:
>
> - I'm in the ~/Desktop directory.
> - I've not yet received any information about ~/Desktop being unique or not.
>
> By adding one of:
>
> - I've reached ~/Desktop from ~/Desk by pressing Tab.
> - I've reached ~/Desktop by launching Emacs from ~/Desktop.
> - I've reached ~/Desktop by changing the working directory.
> etc.
>
> ... or, more succinctly:
>
> - I've reached ~/Desktop by (immediately before) pressing Tab during
> the same "completing session".
> - I've reached ~/Desktop by other means.
>
> ... I can make the relevant state different, but I cannot grasp how
> the added information is relevant. You say in the first case I have
> typed something, namely Tab, but that was in a different context
> (~/Desk) and I don't find it more relevant than the fact that I have
> typed "M-x cd ~/Desktop" in the second example. What's that thing that
> the user has in mind?
>
> If the "not unique" message were shown at the end of step 4 instead,
> that would make an arguably relevant difference. In this variant, the
> first Tab (both in 2 and in 4) is always the one conveying the "not
> unique" hint, in 2 it's required only for this. Now in step 5 the
> information set includes: "I know that ~/Desktop is not unique", while
> this information is missing from the scenario in which I reached
> ~/Desktop by, say, launching emacs from that directory. I still find
> this inconvenient but it's a way of resolving what I see as
> inconsistent.
>
> Another way is to make the behavior in 2 as the one in 5, that is to
> require one Tab in 2 and show "not unique" and completions at
> the same moment, it is the variant I prefer.
>
> A third, uber annoying way, is to make the behavior in 5 as the one in
> 2, that is to require two Tabs in 5, so going from ~/Desk to the
> completion menu for ~/Desktop would require three Tabs.
We are mis-communicating. Let's start from the beginning.
Scenario #1:
. User presses C-x C-f TAB
. Emacs says [Complete but not unique]
. User presses TAB once more
. Emacs pops up *Completions* and still says [Complete but not unique]
Scenario #2:
. User presses C-x C-f Desk TAB
. Emacs completes to ~/Desktop/
. User presses TAB once more
. Emacs pops up *Completions* and says [Complete but not unique]
The difference after the first TAB is because in Scenario #1 there's
nothing to complete, and what's in the minibuffer is already a valid
response to the prompt: it specifies an existing file/directory.
Whereas in Scenario #2 Emacs _can_ complete, and what the user typed
is not an existing file.
OK?
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Carlos Pita, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Carlos Pita, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Carlos Pita, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Carlos Pita, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Carlos Pita, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Carlos Pita, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Carlos Pita, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Carlos Pita, 2021/11/07
- bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Stephen Berman, 2021/11/07
bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/07