From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: History completion
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:12:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861r2lspqo.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl1qq30j.fsf@gmail.com> ("André A. Gomes"'s message of "Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:02:04 +0000")
> I think that such a completion should always be triggered by the user,
> and not automatically.
>
> To cycle the history ring with a given prefix string, I suggest C-n/p.
> The minibuffer is always a single line after all, or am I missing
> something?
This assumption is not always correct. Sometimes the minibuffer
takes a few lines.
> M-n/p can't be taken, and the same applies to C-M-n/p.
Correct.
> Another suggestion would be to follow comint mode's bindings: C-c M-r/s.
> But, unlike comint's case, C-c M-p/n aren't being used so it's also an
> option.
Two key presses is not the most convenient to browse completions.
Horizontal Icomplete uses ‘C-,’ and ‘C-.’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-09 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-08 18:54 History completion Juri Linkov
2021-12-08 20:02 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-09 6:05 ` Manuel Uberti
2021-12-09 17:12 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-12-09 22:52 ` André A. Gomes
2021-12-08 20:52 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-09 8:30 ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-12-09 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-09 18:13 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-09 7:51 ` Manuel Uberti
2021-12-09 17:18 ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-09 17:40 ` Manuel Uberti
2022-06-09 7:01 ` Juri Linkov
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