Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico

[T.V Raman]

I tend to agree with you.

Especially with fuzzy matching, emacs complete/select pretty much
collapse into one, exceptions are things like avy which allow you  to
pick a choice based on the position of the choice in the list of
choices.


Gregory Heytings writes:
 > 
 > >
 > > I have the feeling all these completion systems are encouraging 
 > > confusion around how to use completing-read. That is the 0th point that 
 > > is missing here: Are you completing (expanding text) or selecting 
 > > (narrowing options).
 > >
 > 
 > I've been thinking about this, and I'm not sure I understand what the real 
 > difference between "completing" and "selecting" is.  Do I understand 
 > correctly that the difference is between, for example, expanding command 
 > names (completing), and choosing an emoji in a list (selecting)?
 > 
 > >
 > > It might therefore be necessary to actually implement a "selecting-read" 
 > > function, that could be used more or less like completing-read, but that 
 > > provides a better default UI not based around completing text but 
 > > actually selecting objects/items.
 > >
 > 
 > Given that Emacs is primarily keyboard-driven, it seems to me that the 
 > most efficient way to select an item is, and will always be, to use a 
 > textual representation of the items in the list to select them.  C-x 8 RET 
 > does this, you (can) select an unicode character with its name.  For 
 > example C-x 8 RET inf RET inserts the infinity symbol.  Or course you 
 > could also navigate through the ~45000 unicode characters to select the 
 > one you want, but that would be far less efficient.

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