From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Difficult to get out the completions window Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:28:56 +1200 Message-ID: <17555.12456.957696.309804@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <44932213.5040507@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150497021 29903 80.91.229.2 (16 Jun 2006 22:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 17 00:30:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrMpO-0002M3-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:30:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrMpO-000287-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrMpC-00026m-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrMp8-00021h-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:29:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrMp7-00021e-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FrMyq-0003aN-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-112-192.snap.net.nz [202.124.112.192]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C07076BD53; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:29:53 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id C11011D2F8B; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:29:00 +1200 (NZST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <44932213.5040507@student.lu.se> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.21 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55944 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > It is quite difficult to close the completion window once you have > entered it (with M-v for example). I suggest the following behaviour > when focus is in the completion window: > > 1) On C-g close the completion window and move back to the minibuffer. > This is what happens if you type ESC ESC ESC which runs > delete-completion-window. > > 2) If the completion window is closed with C-x 0 then move back to the > minibuffer. These are global bindings, I don't think that they should be locally rebound. > BTW nothing is said in the Emacs manual "(emacs) Completion Commands" > about how to get out of the completion window. You need to go back to the minibuffer before typing C-g, but that's the case for any command which prompts in the minibuffer if you switch windows, even without completion. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob