Re: Why fido, icycles, ido, icomplete

[Ergus]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 10:39:44AM +0000, Jo?o T?vora wrote:
> Ergus <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > movie theater where there are only classics playing.  Lots of grainy
> > > footage but all movies are superb.
> > Yes, but nobody feels impressed by the special effects in the first Star
> > Wars today, in spite of they were amazing in their moment and required
> > much more effort than newer movies.
>
> I'm glad I made the analogy, then.  I am more interested in cinema than
> special effects.  Metaphoricaly, of course.  (but also literally).

> > > And I found icomplete.el, which is already in Emacs.
> > ivy is also based on icomplete actually.
>
> Oh.  What do you mean "based".  Does it share some of the implementation
> (i.e. does it 'require' icomplete as a library).  Or is it more of "a
> derived work"?
It is a derived work. Look: https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/issues/2321

> > > You are miscommunicating: the "gap" is whatever doesn't quite work in
> > > icomplete-mode to make it work just like ido-mode.  It's the behaviour
> > > of RET, C-k, C-d and some other things.
> > Could you add at least the cycle with arrows as in ido?
>
> Of course, and so can you.  Have you got a FSF copyright assignment?
Yes, I have one... but I prefer to deal with the C side of emacs... ;-).

> Jo?o
Ergus