Re: tabulated-list-mode needs incremental search option

[Jean Louis]

* Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> [2020-11-11 22:24]:
> > In general I am advising that every application with choices offers
> > among others the narrowing incremental search.
> 
> The term "incremental search" is too ambiguous to use here.

I understand.

Please see here how other people refer to incremental search:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_search

Quote:

In computing, incremental search, incremental find or real-time
suggestions is a user interface interaction method to progressively
search for and filter through text. As the user types text, one or
more possible matches for the text are found and immediately presented
to the user. This immediate feedback often allows the user to stop
short of typing the entire word or phrase they were looking for. The
user may also choose a closely related option from the presented list.

To make it more specific I was often referring to Emacs completion
functions, built-in or outside packages. It is in that context.

My references are always in the context of built-in or modified
`completing-read' function and related functions used by helm, ivy,
ido, fido, icomplete, selectrum, etc.

I do not use the context of C-s or M-C-s which is also incremental
search.

> You had a better alternative below: "incremental matching" or
> "incremental narrowing".  And "incremental completion" would be too
> specific to icomplete.el.

When user chooses a file, user is completing file name and works on
specific file.

For my work now I am in 2 options, maybe I do look for specific item,
in that sense I am not really completing the item but jumping to the
item within a list in tabulated-list-mode. There is no action
specified on that item. In the second option I am just looking for the
subtree where that item belongs as maybe I wish to add new sets or
subtrees or other items relevant to that item. I do use
completing-read but maybe to enact some actions only closely related
to completed item. Maybe technically I "complete" but result is quite
different.