From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: You learn something every day... Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:41:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20180413084115.GE20376@tuxteam.de> References: <87sh7zr5o6.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87po33wltw.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523608808 21293 195.159.176.226 (13 Apr 2018 08:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:40:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 13 10:40:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uFX-0005OD-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uHe-0002Ol-1x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34524) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uGr-0002Jd-Ei for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uGo-0000YY-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:41:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:38201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uGo-0000RR-I0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:41:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=20171004; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:Date; bh=Ez4x0GPZX1eKfk7Knd/1Wi5z5rmLh4Xt2SXX1PxNVuE=; b=chNmOi2h7vHfLeox5wwIZsopcTHE9mca2zX/fwjqlD/g5IkPaKZFwGuQmq/p5Y+9IZWMrO5cRf9kU3AxstFG5AeOwo2ApLFmT/oiZyZKTCgjqOunQrd3Iikf2R0pebD+aeODC2j9oIKGpVDfCWFcDKKxv5In5E6oZR4//2p3hxhisC4GNGUpAcKht/x4401vhcy0CCRWhHXnCFss43IC7nEb9hkk03VY/ZnH6u63L/xKwf4N1RgZi4coyRNJJaI+KgK67+H0McLqrnSJbPxLP874Dw3wcV9xvFFz2dDsM1wwl8PKddwPMEJ30W60ZP76Z2LM+y1Fn8sC5R64RNl4jw==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uGh-00065p-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:41:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87po33wltw.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116507 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:29:47AM +0200, Loris Bennett wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: "Loris Bennett" > >> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:17:45 +0200 > >> > >> However, being a relative newbie, having only used Emacs since the late > >> '80s, I have never come across the "Minibuf menu". What's that? > > > > Assuming you didn't disable the menu bar, type "M-x" and look at the > > menu bar: you will find a "Minibuf" item there. Clicking it with the > > mouse will show some minibuffer-related commands. > > Ah, yes, thanks. Actually, I probably have seen that before, albeit > fairly subliminally (since I'm usually looking at the minibuffer at the > bottom of the screen while the "Minibuf" item is active at the top of > the screen). > > I see that there is an menu item "Enter". Under what circumstances > might it be advantageous to use this rather than hitting the Enter key? There's a trick for that: just when you are in the minibuffer, type C-h k ("describe-key") and then click on the menu point "enter". You'll see that this menu entry is bound to (exit-minibuffer). Likewise, if you "C-h k", then , you'll see that this is bound to minibuffer-complete-and-exit. Now I can't say what the exact difference is and why it is there, but that's a way to start the research :-) Cheers - -- t (quickly running away to not fall into *that* rabbit hole ;-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlrQbSsACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaGcACcC/76KITyqnlRReJFJRr5oGLS uVwAnRjyQBCcX2Vn5M5JT/BLy84uLQlv =IFwl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----