minibuffer-complete and completion-cycle-threshold

minibuffer-complete and completion-cycle-threshold

[T.V Raman]

The doc for this setting (appended at the end) is misleading with
respect to how minibuffer-complete works.

(setq completion-cycle-threshold 3)
M-x loa TAB
Available choices are  load-library and load-file but TAB only gives
you load-library.

Setting that option to 1 gives you both choices but TAB does not cycle 

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Re: minibuffer-complete and completion-cycle-threshold

[Stefan Monnier]

> The doc for this setting (appended at the end) is misleading with
> respect to how minibuffer-complete works.
>
> (setq completion-cycle-threshold 3)
> M-x loa TAB
> Available choices are  load-library and load-file but TAB only gives
> you load-library.

I don't know whether I misunderstand you or whether you see something
else than I, but when I try:

    src/emacs -Q --eval '(setq completion-cycle-threshold 3)'
    M-x loa TAB

I get the minibuffer to be expanded to `load-file`.  If I then hit TAB
a few more times, that cycles thorugh `load-theme`, `load-library`, and
back to `load-file`.

That's the behavior I expected.  Is that what you see as well (if so,
what behavior did you expect instead)?


        Stefan

Re: minibuffer-complete and completion-cycle-threshold

[T.V Raman]

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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:


I never see load-file in the example I gave if I set that var to 3 ---
will investigate further --- I may well have a bug in emacspeak in how
it's speaking what's in the minibuffer:-)
>> The doc for this setting (appended at the end) is misleading with
>> respect to how minibuffer-complete works.
>>
>> (setq completion-cycle-threshold 3)
>> M-x loa TAB
>> Available choices are  load-library and load-file but TAB only gives
>> you load-library.
>
> I don't know whether I misunderstand you or whether you see something
> else than I, but when I try:
>
>     src/emacs -Q --eval '(setq completion-cycle-threshold 3)'
>     M-x loa TAB
>
> I get the minibuffer to be expanded to `load-file`.  If I then hit TAB
> a few more times, that cycles thorugh `load-theme`, `load-library`, and
> back to `load-file`.
>
> That's the behavior I expected.  Is that what you see as well (if so,
> what behavior did you expect instead)?
>
>
>         Stefan
>

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