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Re: Fast completion with visible cue?
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Fast completion with visible cue? |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:22:55 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> > Using M-r and M-s for minibuffer history search is not too convenient:
> > switching keys `M-r RET M-r RET M-r RET ...' is not as fast as using
> > only one key to repeat the search for the same string.
>
> IMHO the way readline (and implicitly bash) implement incremental
> history search (bound to C-r/C-s) is great from a UI point of
> view. And that UI has been in use for a long time.
> It would be great to have something similar in emacs.
>
> [I am not quite sure how similar is your proposal to readline, if
> it is, it would be nice to have].
What I described is very similar to how shell history search works.
Actually, I use it all the time and like to implement a similar feature
in Emacs. I am not yet quite sure about keybindings, but perhaps
both pairs C-r/C-s and C-M-r/ C-M-s are ok.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: Fast completion with visible cue?, (continued)
Re: Fast completion with visible cue?, Andreas Schwab, 2004/08/26
Re: Fast completion with visible cue?, Jan D., 2004/08/27
Re: Fast completion with visible cue?, Kim F. Storm, 2004/08/27