From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Difficult to get out the completions window Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:09:04 +1200 Message-ID: <17555.18464.992586.951131@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <44932213.5040507@student.lu.se> <17555.12456.957696.309804@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <44933D35.9090601@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150503041 11901 80.91.229.2 (17 Jun 2006 00:10:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 17 02:10:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrOOB-0000f6-N8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrOOB-0007eO-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrONz-0007dq-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:09:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrONy-0007cS-4d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrONx-0007cI-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FrOXg-00014Z-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-112-192.snap.net.nz [202.124.112.192]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D28C76BB5F; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:09:57 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 40A141D2F8B; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:09:06 +1200 (NZST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <44933D35.9090601@student.lu.se> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55947 Archived-At: > The binding of ESC ESC ESC to delete-completion-window is local here I > suppose. Binding C-x 0 and C-G to delete-completion-window too would not > be to surprising in my opinion, but instead helpful. I've not used ESC ESC ESC but I think normal practice is to create new local bindings rather than override existing global ones. > > > BTW nothing is said in the Emacs manual "(emacs) Completion Commands" > > > about how to get out of the completion window. > > > > You need to go back to the minibuffer before typing C-g, but that's the > > case for any command which prompts in the minibuffer if you switch > > windows, even without completion. > > > Yes, but how do you do that from the keyboard? `C-x o', which is described in the tutorial. > (Without using ESC ESC > ESC which is special here, but BTW not mentioned in the manual.) I the manual size is a problem then I don't think everything should be mentioned, and this seems a pretty obscure command. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob