From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `completing-read` without RET Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:36:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457703406 16717 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2016 13:36:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:36:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 14:36:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aeNF2-0004rm-Cf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:36:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54969 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeNF1-0008Me-Ul for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:36:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeNEr-0008MG-DH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:36:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeNEo-00032Z-7v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:36:21 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeNEo-00031J-1M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:36:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aeNEg-0004e5-BC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:36:10 +0100 Original-Received: from 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.186.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:36:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:36:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FiVEK3qnPN3bimVjVMr/5JSKfH4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109539 Archived-At: >> Is there a function with the same behaviour of `completing-read`, except >> that it doesn't need RET when only one completion exists? > Of course, it's called `completing-read'. > You just have to configure its TAB key accordingly. > I.e. rebind TAB in minibuffer-local-completion-map from > `minibuffer-complete' to a new command which does what you want. Oh, actually, I think I misunderstood your question and there's an even closer answer: just provide a neither-nil neither-t value for the `require-match' argument or `completing-read'. Stefan