Re: BIKESHED: completion faces

[João Távora]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> bold in completions-first-difference helps to immediately see the
>>>>> next character to type to narrow completions further.
>>>> <mild bikeshedding starts>
>>>> Yes, but some questions, Juri:
>>>> * wouldn't any other face, say "underline", serve the same purpose?
>>> underline is less noticeable than bold, when used on a single character
>>> with completions-first-difference in the "basic" completion style.
>>
>> I kind of like the underline for first-difference because it is similar
>> to the underline used in some toolkit's menus to indicate which
>> key-shortcut to use to select this entry.
>
> Key-shortcuts in menus is a good analogy.  So underline for
> completions-first-difference, and bold for completions-common-part
> would look really nice.

Well that's exactly what Stefan is proposing.  OMG two bikesheds of the
same color: the Arthur Jackson award at last!

João

PS: Three sheds actually, I'm +1 on this too.