Re: Alias support

[Jules Bean <jules office vi net>]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 09:15:57AM -0700, Matthew Guenther wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Duly noted.  Currently planning on:
> > Before:
> >   f<tab>
> > After:
> >   fe|derico
> > Tab again:
> >   fe|jj
> > Tab again:
> >   fe|derico
> > 
> > Note the cursor (represented by |) doesn't move to the end.
> > If I can, I'll highlight [derico] and/or [jj].  Contrast this with:
> > Before:
> >   fed<tab>
> > After:
> >   federico, |
> > 
> > Is this good?  Is this bad?
> >
> 
> This sounds good to me, except for the case of say "jo", where you might
> have a dozen entries beginning with that sequence of letters.  If you missed
> the one you wanted you'd have to cycle through the whole list again.  Maybe
> if there's only a few it works the way you described, but if there's a larger
> number of completions it pops up a dialog with a list of to pick from.  Or
> perhaps the dialog can be brought up by pressing a different key.

The most sophisticated, UI-wise, would be to bring up a floating
window just below (out the way of what you're typing). I'm thinking
the almost-completely borderless type which is most commonly seen used
for tooltips. This window would contain all possible completions (and
some keypresses would enable you to choose them.  Possibly it would
number them so a quick Ctrl-<N> would pick the one you want, possibly
arrow keys would go up and down the list).

Jules