Re: FW: Minibuf menu when minibuffer is standalone

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> For learning perhaps? Maybe not very useful for you though ... ;-)

> However looking at the Minibuff menu when doing C-x C-f in CVS Emacs 23
> I see a little bit strangeness:

>   Minibuff
>    Complete -- TAB
>    Complete Word
>    List Completions -- ?
>    Previous History Item -- M-p
>    Next History Item -- M-n
>    Isearch History Backward -- C-r
>    Isearch History Forward -- C-s
>    Enter -- C-j
>    Quit -- M-ESC ESC

> I would perhaps expect some to be different

>    Previous History Item -- up
>    Next History Item -- down
>    Quit -- C-g

> It seems like the choice of keybinding to show could be done better.

The Quit one looks bad indeed.  The other 2 are right: we want to show
the bindings which work everywhere whenever possible, whereas `up' and
`down' keys may not always be available.

>    Enter -- C-j

> I do not understand that one at all.

That's not too good either, indeed, but I don't see it here (it just
doesn't say anything at all for me).


        Stefan