Difficult to get out the completions window

Difficult to get out the completions window

[Lennart Borgman]

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.

BTW nothing is said in the Emacs manual "(emacs) Completion Commands" 
about how to get out of the completion window.

Re: Difficult to get out the completions window

[Nick Roberts]

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

Re: Difficult to get out the completions window

[Lennart Borgman]

Nick Roberts wrote:
> 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.
>   
The binding of ESC ESC ESC to delete-completion-window is local here I 
suppose. Binding C-x 0 and C-G to delete-completion-window too would not 
be to surprising in my opinion, but instead helpful.
>  > 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.
>   
Yes, but how do you do that from the keyboard? (Without using ESC ESC 
ESC which is special here, but BTW not mentioned in the manual.)

Re: Difficult to get out the completions window

[Nick Roberts]

 > The binding of ESC ESC ESC to delete-completion-window is local here I 
 > suppose. Binding C-x 0 and C-G to delete-completion-window too would not 
 > be to surprising in my opinion, but instead helpful.

I've not used ESC ESC ESC but I think normal practice is to create new local
bindings rather than override existing global ones.

 > >  > 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.
 > >   
 > Yes, but how do you do that from the keyboard?

`C-x o', which is described in the tutorial.

 >                                                (Without using ESC ESC 
 > ESC which is special here, but BTW not mentioned in the manual.)

I the manual size is a problem then I don't think everything should be
mentioned, and this seems a pretty obscure command.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

Re: Difficult to get out the completions window

[Richard Stallman]

    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.

C-g should not delete windows.  That would be too drastic.

    2) If the completion window is closed with C-x 0 then move back to the 
    minibuffer.

It would be ok to have a local command remapping in that buffer.
Does someone want to do it?