Re: [Nano-devel] adding a word-completion feature to nano

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hello Sumedh,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016, at 22:11, Sumedh Pendurkar wrote:
> I have worked on very similar idea as it is on vim. Just it shows a
> vertical list of all words and I show it horizontally.
> 
> I request you to see how it works once.

I've tried the patch and...  I don't like it.  The cursor disappears,
there is no indication that the user has to select something  in the
statusbar and that this is done with Enter, it takes the eyes far away
from where the user was typing, and if they try to see where they were
they can't find it because the cursor is gone (until they press Enter
or some other key), and in the color scheme that I use, the highlighted
suggested word is nearly unreadble.  In short: no, sorry.

In my eyes it is much more effective when the first ^] immediately
makes the first possible completion, and that subsequent ^]s cycle
through the alternatives.  This means: just one single key combo to
hit, and just one place to look at.  Comfortable.

> If you don't like it, I'll make it similar to what it is in emacs.

That would be great.

> (Its not perfect yet. It has some issues [...]

One of the issues is that when I press Enter on one of the suggestions,
it crashes.  But then, I use "MALLOC_CHECK_=2".

Benno

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