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Contovounesios" > To: jaime.escalante@gmx.com > Cc: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" , 48764@debbugs.gnu.org > Subject: Re: bug#48764: mini-buffer completion > > jaime.escalante@gmx.com writes: > > >> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 8:46 AM > >> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" > >> To: jaime.escalante@gmx.com > >> Cc: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" , 48764@debbugs.gnu.org > >> Subject: bug#48764: mini-buffer completion > >> > >> jaime.escalante@gmx.com writes: > >> > >> > How about mini-buffer entries that require user writing a string. = How would > >> > a user figure out what to do? > >> > > >> > Is there any information about basic navigation keys for mini-buffe= r input in the manual? > >> > >> Does the node (info "(emacs) Minibuffer History")[1] in the Emacs man= ual > >> count? FWIW, it can be found through index entries such as 'minibuff= er > >> history', 'M-n (minibuffer history)', 'DOWN (minibuffer history)', et= c. > > > > We are not really talking about mini-buffer history, but mini-buffer i= nput. > > The OP refers to and . In the minibuffer, these keys by > default navigate so-called "minibuffer history", where e.g. > inserts "future" history, AKA the next default value. So is > actually "navigating" the list of defaults (completing-read's 7th > argument), not the list of completions (completing-read's 2nd argument). For me it was just about cycling through a list of possible inputs. Correct, it is not about list of completions, but navigating the list of defaults. I write a lot of code and cannot always remember what I would be having for input. > If this is not the kind of input you're referring to, then could you > please clarify which input you're referring to? > > >> For more details on minibuffer keymaps there's also > >> (info "(emacs) Minibuffer Maps")[2], found e.g. via the index entry > >> 'C-h r i minibuffer key TAB RET'. > >> > >> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Minibu= ffer-History.html > >> [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Minibu= ffer-Maps.html > >> > >> HTH, > > -- > Basil >