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Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-: |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:12:07 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> * Drew believe that the whole M-: should evolve to something more
>> like a interactive scratch in the context of current buffer, and
>> that if TAB does not complete in scratch, it should not complete in
>> M-:
>
> To be specific, I said this:
>
>> I would prefer to see M-: take on more of the
>> character of a pop-up emacs-lisp-mode buffer:
>> TAB, C-M-q, C-j,..., but with RET still causing
>> eval... And I'd like to see M-: pretty-print the
>> result (as in pp-eval-expression)
I think it would make sense to change M-: to use the same behavior
as M-! has, i.e. when the number of lines of the result is more than
some threshold then pop-up a buffer in another window with the result.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/