Re: Emacs completion improvement

Hi Pierre,

Pierre Radermecker <[email protected]> writes:

> On completion, Distel opens up a *Completions* buffer. In order to select a
> candidate I have to click the mid-mouse button or switch to the buffer and press
> RET a selected choice. First alternative is straightforward but I need to use
> the mouse ... the second one is painful.
>
> A third alternative that is available in Slime is to refine the selection in the
> main buffer and ask for completion again (ALT-tab). It does not seem to work
> nicely in Distel. The *Completions* buffer stays open.
>
> I would love to have something a bit more intuitive. Something along the line
> with the Predictive Emacs extension (or other editors such as IntelliJ,
> Netbeans, Eclipse, ...), a kind of tooltip completion of some sort.
>
> I guess there is a easy way to change the behaviour so that the completion list
> result works with Predictive or goes to the mini-buffer instead.
>
> Sounds interesting ? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

Yes, SLIME-like completion would definitely be a nice enhancement for
distel. It wasn't clear from your post whether this was something you
were working on or just a suggested enhancement.

- Bill


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