Re: Completions and history

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 07:56:58PM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> I am wondering if we have some feature to list the minibuffer history
>> vanilla for example in completions. In ivy there was C-r which switched
>> completions to the minibuffer-history; icycles had a similar feature;
>> and helm also had something; but in the default completion system there
>> is not such feature as far as I know.
>>
>> Some commands like previous-line-or-history-element or the
>> un-docummented previous-complete-history-element do part of the work,
>> but there is no way to list the history and select which may be useful
>> for find-file or M-: to repeat previous actions. The information is
>> there...
>>
>> I suppose that this has been discussed before... so is there a reason
>> why this has not been implemented? Should I open a feature request or is
>> someone already opened?
>
>Indeed, this has been discussed recently in
>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg00802.html
>but no feature request was opened, since C-TAB is already taken by
>file-cache-minibuffer-complete.
>
At least could we have documented how to enable this and then let the
user set it? Ivy users will find it comfortable in C-r to substitute the
Current isearch-backward, other may prefer something else. The default
binding may be agreed latter.