From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Backward completions
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:01:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lji34tni.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvskcbj2n7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:45:27 -0500")
>> The following patch binds <backtab> to `minibuffer-complete-backward'
>> that is an alias of `minibuffer-complete'. But maybe code in
>> `minibuffer-complete' is so small, so it could be copied to a new
>> function `minibuffer-complete-backward' (with small modifications)
>> instead of creating an alias?
>
> I'm not convinced it makes sense for backtab to do completion.
> And we already have M-prior to scroll backward.
Actually I rarely scroll a large list of completions using <TAB> since
it's more convenient to switch to the *Completions* buffer and to use
normal scrolling keys. So I don't insist on the <backtab> key.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 19:45 completions - remove window after use? David Reitter
2009-11-11 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-11 21:26 ` Štěpán Němec
2009-11-11 23:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 9:57 ` Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) Juri Linkov
2009-11-12 10:09 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-11-17 17:45 ` Vertical completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 8:11 ` martin rudalics
2009-11-18 9:59 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 9:47 ` Backward completions (was: Vertical completions) Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18 15:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-18 19:02 ` Backward completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 19:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-19 17:36 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 17:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-19 18:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-20 9:27 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 17:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-20 21:26 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 19:01 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-11-18 19:50 ` Backward completions (was: Vertical completions) Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 17:32 ` Backward completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 18:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 18:36 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-19 19:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-19 19:30 ` Drew Adams
2009-11-18 9:52 ` switch-to-completions (was: Vertical completions) Juri Linkov
2009-11-18 15:48 ` switch-to-completions Stefan Monnier
2009-11-18 19:04 ` switch-to-completions Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 1:12 ` switch-to-completions Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 10:29 ` Vertical completions (was: completions - remove window after use?) Štěpán Němec
2009-11-12 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-12 22:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-12 13:30 ` completions - remove window after use? Lluís
2009-11-12 14:40 ` David Reitter
2009-11-12 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-14 0:30 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-12 3:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-11-12 8:19 ` martin rudalics
2009-11-12 22:36 ` Xavier Maillard
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