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RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs
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Davis Herring |
Subject: |
RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:35:16 -0700 (PDT) |
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> In the vanilla Emacs `customize-apropos-faces', you must provide a regexp
> once and for all, with RET - there is no completion of face names
> available,
> and no way to rectify your regexp without starting over.
>
> This is a good example of the general advantage of regexp matching on the
> fly, and the advantage of providing input by completion whenever possible.
I'm not arguing against the end-result here (an interactive guide to the
effects of your entered regexp), but it strikes me as intensely confusing
to use the standard completing read mechanism (or a variant of it) to read
one thing (a regexp) while providing "completion" on another (face names).
As a silly example, suppose a face name contained the character $: then
selecting it from *Completions* (because you realized you wanted just that
one) would have entirely the wrong effect.
In general, then, this process probably deserves another name than
"completing-read". It's related to re-builder, in that it is interactive
"explanation" of a regexp; perhaps it could be called "building-read" or
so?
Davis
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- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, (continued)
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/17
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/17
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/18
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/25
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/25
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/25
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/25
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/26
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/26
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/25
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs,
Davis Herring <=
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/06/21
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/21
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Davis Herring, 2007/06/21
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/21
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/24
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/15
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/15
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/15
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/13
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/13