"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > On Fri Dec 28 2012 Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > rewrite. But I believe it does not (yet?) offer completion when the >> > result of the completion is supposed to be a list of values. >> >> IIUC completing-read-multiple should do what you want (and has been >> included in Emacs for a while, at least since Emacs-22 if not longer). > > The keymap used by completing-read-multiple binds SPC to > crm-complete-word. For users not expecting completion, this has two > consequence that might appear counterintuitive: > > - If one string in the list of return values is supposed to contain > the SPC character (which I do not find unusual in the context of, > say, the organization field of BBDB), this requires C-q SPC. > > - In BBDB, the list of organizations is displayed with the > two-character string ", " as separator. Likewise, this list of > organizations is generated from the return value of read-string > using split-string with separator "[ \t\n]*[;,][ \t\n]*". Such > regexps are not supported by crm-separator. (The latter must be a > single character string). > > I still believe that completing-read-multiple is a cool feature and > I might like to use it myself for entering organizations into BBDB. > Yet I do not know whether all users will be happy with this feature > in the context of BBDB's organization field. So it might be better > to make it customizable whether BBDB uses read-string or > completing-read-multiple.
Yeah, I've been poking at it and you're right it would be hard to integrate it seamlessly, without any surprises to the user. Let me see if I can come up with an okay compromise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master SQL Server Development, Administration, T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and more. Get SQL Server skills now (including 2012) with LearnDevNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only - learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122512 _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
