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Re: Looking for universal completion with simple UI


From: Tu, Do
Subject: Re: Looking for universal completion with simple UI
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 22:42:14 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

Vào 03:26:36 UTC+7 Thứ hai, ngày 06 tháng mười năm 2014, dont.sp...@gmail.com 
đã viết:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> I'm posting to ask about a completion model I have in mind. Before I code it 
> up myself I'm trying to find any packages that already implement most or all 
> of this functionality.
> 
> 
> 
> The Emacs Wiki Category page for Completion lists packages for minibuffer 
> completion and text completion:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCompletion
> 
> 
> 
> I want a package for completion both INSIDE and OUTSIDE of the minibuffer 
> with a universal UI:
> 
> - Minibuffer Input Completion:
> 
>   - finding files
> 
>   - switching buffers
> 
>   - apropos for functions and variables
> 
>   - and any other minibuffer history lists
> 
> - Text Completion in a Buffer:
> 
>   - code completion
> 
>   - executables/commands at a comint prompt
> 
>   - i-searching in the current buffer
> 
>   - cycling through killed text for yanking
> 
> 
> 
> Further, I want to navigate via a couple "dimensions" of context, both 
> historical (previous inputs I've entered), and alphabetical (previous and 
> next alphabetically, as in files in a directory).
> 
> 
> 
> The UI model and keybindings for this might be as simple as:
> 
> - show prefix candidates with TAB
> 
> - show substring candidates with S-TAB
> 
> - with candidates already shown, the second TAB/S-TAB would select the first 
> candidate
> 
> - navigate candidates alphabetically with C-r, C-s
> 
> - navigate candidates historically with C-p, C-n
> 
> 
> 
> Do any packages implement this already?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Earl

I wrote a Helm guide here: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html . A lot of 
demos are in there. 

Here is code completion using Helm: 
http://tuhdo.github.io/static/c-ide/semantic-boost-demo.gif . The picture is in 
C/C++ guide: http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html . Visit the page for more demos.


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