Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:20:24 +0000
>> 
>> Here is an updated version, not with improved visuals:
>
> It looks like this only supports displaying selection lists and
> interacting with users via buffers?  If so, I think we should also
> support doing that via GUI dialogs (in Emacs configurations that
> support dialogs, which nowadays means almost every build).  This is
> what many other applications do, so I think we had better did the
> same, at least as an option.
>
> Of course, selections via dialogs not always make sense, so this
> should be one of the possible UIs we support, not the only one.

Ideally yes, but is it possible to have a menu that can be both selected
and expanded? If not, I think the interface for selecting-read should be
updated to reflect this restriction (making every object with children
non-selectable).

> Thanks.

-- 
        Philip K.