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Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand'
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand' |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:53 -0400 |
> I have doubts that this is uniformly the best thing to do.
> I think that the best thing to do depends on the message:
> some messages are good to display at the end of the minibuffer,
> as in `minibuffer-message', and some are better just omitted
> while in the minibuffer.
Currently messages displayed when the minibuffer is active don't get
omitted. They just obscure the minibuffer content from the user.
The message I replied to showed an example of code that omits
the message when the minibuffer is active.
With the patch I sent (that changes `message' to call `minibuffer-message'
in the active minibuffer), Isearch in the minibuffer works mostly without
changes,
I am surprised. How does it do that? If `message' calls
`minibuffer-message', how come that doesn't cause all the isearch
messages to appear after the minibuffer text?
but there is a difference on failed Isearch: without this patch
the Isearch error message overwrites the minibuffer content, but with this
patch it appends the error message to the end of the minibuffer, e.g.
I-search backward: foo [Failing I-search backward: bar]
I am not sure how to interpret that, because I do not know what foo
and bar stand for. But it cannot be right to have two isearch
messages at once. Whether the search succeeds or fails, its message
should be displayed in the same place, in the same way.
Otherwise, we could just fix this particular case not to use
`minibuffer-message'.
If `message' automatically calls `minibuffer-message' when the minibuffer
is active, how is it possible to fix one case not to do that?
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', (continued)
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Juri Linkov, 2008/03/06
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Richard Stallman, 2008/03/08
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Juri Linkov, 2008/03/08
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/08
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Juri Linkov, 2008/03/08
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/08
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/08
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand',
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Juri Linkov, 2008/03/09
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Richard Stallman, 2008/03/10
- Cannot build the trunk since unicode (was: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand'), Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/10
- Re: Cannot build the trunk since unicode (was: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand'), Richard Stallman, 2008/03/11
- Re: Cannot build the trunk since unicode (was: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand'), Andreas Schwab, 2008/03/11
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Juri Linkov, 2008/03/10
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Richard Stallman, 2008/03/11
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Juri Linkov, 2008/03/11
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', Johan Bockgård, 2008/03/12
- Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand', David Kastrup, 2008/03/12