From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Keybindings for navigating completing-read entries
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:00:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcb3tXvovlabaASv6W6CotG37ZscrJcRjm4GspZjtTuyQfasCF0b3uHyrwavtuQ-rCFPs26DWeacrObW7mUszISMObyir_DYxna1uIWU0Qo=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sezst8f0.fsf@gnu.org>
On Friday, April 12th, 2024 at 12:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:32:46 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > > If you could describe in enough detail how you tried to search for
> > > those bindings, we could think about improving the documentation
> > > facilities to be more helpful in this matter.
> >
> > Started reading from through "21.6 Completion".
>
>
> You seem to be reading the wrong manual. Try reading "9.4 Completion"
> in the Emacs user manual instead. It describes the commands in the
> minibuffer when Emacs does completion, which is what you want.
>
> > Nevertheless, with completing-read the user simply gets a prompt
> > without much indication about completion frameworks and about
> > any keybinding shortcuts to traverse entries.
>
>
> Actually, if you type ? (question mark) at the prompt, Emacs will pop
> up a buffer with some useful commands.
Yes, if I type ? I get some useful commands. Because I had been using INITIAL
with "completing-read", it was not evident that one has to clear the prompt
to invoke "?".
The manual could state that ? displays some useful completion help in addition
to only "Display a list of completions". It would help to have a short
"An Introduction to Emacs" like there is "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs
Lisp". Which would describe completion with examples.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-11 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-11 0:49 Keybindings for navigating completing-read entries Heime
2024-04-11 1:12 ` Zhengyi Fu
2024-04-11 1:52 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-04-11 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-11 11:32 ` Heime
2024-04-11 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-11 16:23 ` Heime
2024-04-11 16:37 ` Heime
2024-04-12 1:55 ` tpeplt
2024-04-11 17:00 ` Heime [this message]
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