From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select yank via completion Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:25:22 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87a6v5edqp.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87wnymda5g.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87ima5he8j.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87mtzfzt9a.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87k0uifp3w.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87d009iykt.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <3341c426-3a86-4ef0-a0ca-9102191a925b@default> <87o8jsiems.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87pn46sfd4.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <0ff3cdb6-e735-4eaa-86d9-7ab980b74431@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26594"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: spacibba@aol.com, Jean Louis , andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, Stefan Monnier , Gregory Heytings , Eli Zaretskii To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 25 20:31:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ki0WD-0006mg-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:31:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46122 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ki0WC-0001hu-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51186) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ki0V5-0001Eo-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:30:47 -0500 Original-Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:57641) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ki0V2-0005Ib-NV; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:30:47 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.99.98 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-99-98.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.99.98]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 06C55E0003; Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:30:35 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <0ff3cdb6-e735-4eaa-86d9-7ab980b74431@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:21:39 -0800 (PST)") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.196; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay4-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259800 Archived-At: >> The problem is that there is another self-inserting key that can be >> used for text editing: '?' is bound to minibuffer-completion-help. >> Maybe then the variable could be named e.g. minibuffer-self-insert? > > `?', like `SPC', should be self-inserting during > completion. There's zero problem doing that. > I've been doing it for years. > > I use `M-?', not `?', for completion help In my > case it's `icicle-minibuffer-help', but vanilla > Emacs could just bind `minibuffer-completion-help' > to `M-?'. completion-in-region already uses `M-?', so maybe completion-in-minibuffer could use the same `M-?'?