Listing completions automatically

Listing completions automatically

[PT]

I'd like to offer the user a list from which she has to select an item.  
Since the user doesn't know what items are on the list the possible items  
should be shown immediately.

I tried using completing-read, but it seems the user has to press TAB at  
least once to have the list of possible completions actually diplayed.

Is there way to show the list immediately?

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Re: Listing completions automatically

[Kevin Rodgers]

PT wrote:
> I'd like to offer the user a list from which she has to select an item.  
> Since the user doesn't know what items are on the list the possible 
> items  should be shown immediately.
> 
> I tried using completing-read, but it seems the user has to press TAB 
> at  least once to have the list of possible completions actually diplayed.
> 
> Is there way to show the list immediately?


(let ((unread-command-events (cons ?\t unread-command-events)))
   (completing-read PROMPT TABLE ...))

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Re: Listing completions automatically

[PT]

On Sat, 14 May 2005 00:06:37 +0200, Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>  
wrote:
>
> (let ((unread-command-events (cons ?\t unread-command-events)))
>    (completing-read PROMPT TABLE ...))
>

It works fine, thanks!

It's strange there is no configuration variable to control it and
one has to stuff keyboard events into the command loop manually...

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