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Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:25:44 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 01:10:47 +0100 Gregor Zattler <address@hidden> wrote:
GZ> * Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> [19. Nov. 2013]:
>> , but honestly any solution that pops
>> up a whole new buffer is unusable today in 2013.
GZ> Buffers are great because the user is allowed to do everything
GZ> s/he can do with other text.[1] Perhaps the problem lies in the
GZ> switching to/from and quitting of said buffers?
GZ> [1] see
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs#TOC-Dialog-Boxes:-The-Root-of-All-Evil
Selecting a completion candidate is a very specific use case; the
content is not text but a menu of options. In any case, I'm not against
buffers but against the general UI flow, which requires either mouse
clicks or hitting `C-x o'.
Ted
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, (continued)
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/11/22
- 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
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Stefan Monnier, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Gregor Zattler, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI,
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- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, John Yates, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Juri Linkov, 2013/11/18
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Tom, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Stefan Monnier, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Juri Linkov, 2013/11/19
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, martin rudalics, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Tom, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Juri Linkov, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, martin rudalics, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI, Juri Linkov, 2013/11/21