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Re: Keyword completion list: uppercase or lowercase? (was: Shower though


From: Bruce D'Arcus
Subject: Re: Keyword completion list: uppercase or lowercase? (was: Shower thought: submit an IETF RFC to register Org as a MIME type)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 09:51:23 -0400

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 9:41 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >>> But then c-a-p is very lenient since it lists lower and upper case block
> >>> variants even when I typed a lower case prefix, and upper case usually
> >>> will go first in the list, hence promoting a seemingly bad practice.
> >>
> >> Could you clarify what is "c-a-p"?
> >
> > Yes, I just meant completion-at-point. At least some org functions,
> > which I believe are implemented using pcomplete and then exposed through
> > the completion-at-point interface, provide completions in both lower and
> > uppercase variants and except when completion-ignore-case is nil (not
> > the default) uppercase candidates will be sorted first in the list.
> > It's often quite inconvenient to scroll down a completion menu to pick
> > the lowercase completion for a short prefix, which either promotes using
> > the uppercase variant at hand or offsets the benefits of
> > autocompletion. Moreover, popular external collections of snippets have
> > already adopted the lowercase convention of org-mode, hence introducing
> > inconsistency in the document when one mixes both sources of completion
> > (lowercase snippets and org-mode uppercase completions). So perhaps
> > uppercase completions should be provided only when the user explicitly
> > typed an uppercase prefix. What do you think?
>
> I just tried with clean Emacs:
>
> #+beg<complete -> #+begin_<complete> -> list of completions, all in lower case
> #+BEG<complete -> #+BEGIN_<complete> -> list of completions, all in upper case

Perhaps at some point the upper case should just be removed?

This raises a related question I've wondered about:

Why doesn't the completion insert the full begin/end, and put point inside?

It's a bit of an awkward UX to add the end line ATM.

Bruce



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