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accolade

02:06

@Carpetsmoker, thanks for taking the time for trying to get this straight! :)
I'm talking about Insert mode completion. <C-p> does not start at the bottom of the buffer. Both C-p and C-n start from the cursor position, C-p backwards to the previous match (maybe that's what you meant – that C-p starts at the bottom of the buffer part before/above the cursor), C-n forwards to the next one. Backwards seems to make more sense to me, because that's where one has typically just been entering text (one might want to repeat).

Carpetsmoker

02:32

@accolade Huh? I'm confused how buffers come into play here?

accolade

03:05

@Carpetsmoker My best guess for your what you meant by «<C-p> starts at the bottom» was that you meant the bottom of a buffer. The bottom of what did you mean then?

… Well, and the other way buffers come into play is that the use case I'm thinking of is the one where the completion is done from words in the current buffer (which is what's done by default for C-p and C-n, at least for me), as opposed to idk from some tag file or programming language keyword collection.

Carpetsmoker

03:22

I need to figure out how to record screencasts

So I can show

The bottom of the completion list

accolade

03:40

@Carpetsmoker, ah, I see, you're talking about the popup.

Carpetsmoker

03:56

Yeh, what else?

accolade

As I said: the buffer.

From which the popup is populated.

(Well, evertyhing I said about C-p and C-n still holds, as the completion popup is (by default, at least for me) populated with 1. the matches in the buffer part after/below the cursor, in order top to bottom; then 2. the matches in the buffer part before/above the cursor, also in order top to bottom, thus starting at the beginning of the buffer.)
Example: Buffer looks like:
l1
l2
l ← invoke completion here with <C-p> or <C-n>
l4
l5
→ results in completion popup:
l4
l5
l1
l2

So what I was saying is, that I'd think that when in line 3, one is more likely to want to repeat "l2" than "l4" (in terms of this abstract example).

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accolade

05:01

Hahaha, brilliant! chat.stackexchange.com/404

DJMcMayhem

@accolade even better: chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=Easter+egg&room=20803

accolade

05:16

@DJMcMayhem, hehe. (I was confused at first, until I tried refreshing.^^)
Do you get this one? «Anthony: The sun may rise in the east, at least it settles in a final location»

(Neither do I see a relation to easter or eggs, nor do I get the joke.)

DJMcMayhem

@accolade I don't get that joke, but I can explain the relation to Easter eggs

Easter egg (media)

An Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message, or feature in an interactive work such as a computer program, video game or DVD menu screen. The name is used to evoke the idea of a traditional Easter egg hunt. Atari's 1979 release Adventure contains the first hidden message in a video game to have been discovered by its players; the message is "Created by Warren Robinett", and was inserted by Robinett, the game's programmer. According to Robinett, the term Easter egg was applied by Atari personnel on being alerted to the secret addition, and making the comparison of players' discovery...

accolade

I know what figurative Easter eggs are; the other messages in your first link have a relation to easter or eggs, e.g.: «$(egg).hide();»

DJMcMayhem

Oh, I get what you mean

Yeah, I don't get it either

accolade

Ah, thanks for the info.^^

accolade

06:20

(So I googled it: It's a line from Californication and Anthony is their vocalist, which will be the joke. So no Easter/egg reference I spose.)

accolade

06:32

@Rich It is indeed: Bram says, in his Vim's 25th birthday presentation from November, that plugin authors told him about things neovim was working on which vim should really have, "so that's what happened": youtu.be/ayc_qpB-93o?t=59m49s

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