From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#47699: [PATCH] Improve completion-list-mode-map Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 10:31:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8el46rs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3755fe92dcbf588701ae@heytings.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34625"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 47699@debbugs.gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 11 09:32:29 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUa5-0008w2-1k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:32:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52672 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUa2-0000yj-LB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37074) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUZe-0000yT-Ga for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42331) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUZe-0004ii-83 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUZe-0001xw-5b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:32:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 07:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 47699 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 47699-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B47699.16181262897513 (code B ref 47699); Sun, 11 Apr 2021 07:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 47699) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Apr 2021 07:31:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53877 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUZ7-0001x7-4x for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:31:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44018) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUZ6-0001ww-Ay for 47699@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:31:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58300) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUZ0-0004I1-TS; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3288 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lVUYz-0000Bu-7c; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:31:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3755fe92dcbf588701ae@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Sun, 11 Apr 2021 01:03:56 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:203830 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 01:03:56 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > > Currently completion-list-mode-map does not give a specific meaning to > most keys, which means that most keypresses display an error "Buffer is > read-only #". I suggest to make it a child of > special-mode-map, and to bind the "n" and "p" keys to "next-completion" > and "previous-completion". Why just 'n' and 'p'? If we want more commands to move between completions, I could think about several others: <, >, C-f, C-b, C-n, C-p, Home, End, the arrow keys, etc. However, these bindings are only available if one makes *Completions* the current buffer, right? Which rarely if ever happens in TAB-completion scenarios, right? If so, is that really helpful to have these additional bindings, and if so, in what use cases?