Open gasche opened 8 years ago
But the mode (3) can, namely by using the same Alt+← and Alt+→ shortcuts to scroll the list. I personally also think that would be the most convenient mode.
Rather than "cannot be used" I would say "it is less suitable for": seeing the actual list of choice makes it noticeably easier to discover alternatives (when you are looking for a given completion, you also see the other choices and this may raise your curiosity to look at another choice later; with the scrolling interface you will stop at the desired choice).
For this reason I would not suggest to set it as the default. It may be interesting to think of hybrid modes (for example: having the list when no choice has been made yet, and moving to the most-silent mode as soon as an alphabetic prefix has been entered), but for now having these simple choices available for selection is the right first step.
Some users complain that the way utop handles the completion bar is too visually invasive. I propose the following features to let people select a less fancy completion mode.
Mode (3) never shows the list of choices, so it cannot be used for self-discovery of names and features (toplevel directives).