From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: wilnerthomas@tutanota.com
Cc: 57423@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57423: Completions Buffer requiring window switching or mouse activity
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:09:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835yif359l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NAMil2M--3-7@tutanota.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:18:58 +0200 (CEST)
> From: wilnerthomas--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
>
> Using "M-x COMMAND TAB" to display minibuffer commands, one gets a
> temporary Completions Buffer that says
>
> Click on a completion to select it
>
> Consequently, one cannot complete or go through the possibilities in the minibuffer,
> but am being forced to either switch to it with "C-x o" a couple of times, or having
> to use the mouse.
You don't need to switch or use the mouse. You can instead:
. keep typing TAB to scroll through the full list of completion
candidates (if the full list takes more than a single window to
show), or
. type more text in the minibuffer, then press TAB again, to narrow
the list of candidates -- the next letter which will narrow the
list is displayed in bold in the list of the candidates, or
. in Emacs 29, you can type M-<UP> and M-<DOWN> arrow keys to select
the candidates
> An effective way that improves the frequent minibuffer activity (e.g. icomplete lets user
> select a completion without having to smitch windows), emacs can automatically switch
> to the completions buffer so one can get to a possible selection using the arrow keys.
In Emacs 29, there's a new variable 'completion-auto-select', which
does precisely that.
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2022-08-26 1:18 bug#57423: Completions Buffer requiring window switching or mouse activity wilnerthomas--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-26 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-08-26 6:21 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-26 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-26 7:15 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-26 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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