Providing more prompts in the pager about available action keys

[psychoslave]

The behaviour observed is as of Fish version 3.0.2.

So I just discovered that when the completion menu is triggered, it's possible to to filter interactively the list. That's wonderful. But I had to log the documentation to become aware of that.

When there are many entries, Fish is courteous enough to not throw a full screen of them, but limit that to a 4×3 matrix and a gentle line saying …and 740 more rows are also judged as possible candidates for completion.

Now, that's already a decent behaviour. But I would feel that as an improvement if the gentle line could be turned to something like [744 proposals] ↓ then ← →↑↓ to pick, ⭾ for the full list, <C-s> to sieve, ␛ to discard.

And once <tab> pressed, rather than rows 1 to 49 of 744, something like [744 proposals] ← → ↑↓ ⭻⭽ ⭾ or <S-⭾> to browse, ⏎ to validate, ␛ to discard

By the way, I took the number from a trial on dnf install <tab>, and I find strange that with the 12 initial items plus 740 more, I end up with 744. Ever this is just an inconsistency in paging, or there's an error in the bug, isn't it?

What's your opinion?

[zanchey]

There's definitely some concern about the discoverability of the pager search - many discussions in #2249. One of the problems is that all these keys can be re-bound to something else, so listing the defaults might confuse people. The rebinding might be done by a theme rather than the user directly.

[krobelus]

and I find strange that with the 12 initial items plus 740 more, I end up with 744

It says 740 more rows, not items; the initial 4 rows happen to fit 12 items in your case.

[psychoslave]

Thanks @krobelus now it makes far more sense. Although I'm guilty of not having thought about it more carefully, I would regard this as an improvement to use a consistent numbering unit. Maybe I should open a new issue on this particular point?

[krobelus]

I think it is consistent already; of course suggestions for improvement are welcome.