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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 57163@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57163: completing-read not allow cycling of the options by default
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:14:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834jygmazg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s8JPXQl29CqVd6Dg7lugOzuFIOgV0H-BUQYo0YlRGdMHojJn6InoLljl1qteUa1tK28AHNQO9msyThiBLbgOLUHgKo5A6ciLb91rrjur6LU=@proton.me> (message from uzibalqa on Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:32:02 +0000)

> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:32:02 +0000
> From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
> Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>, 57163@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > You mean the completion candidates? M-<up> and M-<down> do that (by
> > > default).
> 
> > As does repeatedly pressing TAB, right? Or maybe I don't understand
> > what is meant by "cycling" in this context? An example of using
> > completing-read and the lack of cycling would be appreciated.
> 
> Correct, TAB, M-<up>, M-<down> do not execute any functionality

They do here, see below.

> Consider the following function.  Call the function with "M-x change-cursor".
> TAB produces "[Complete, but not unique]"; whilst "M-down" and "M-up" result
> in [M-down is undefined]  and [M-up is undefined].
> 
> (defun change-cursor (form)
>   "Modify the cursor form."
> 
>   (interactive
>    (list
>     (let ( (cseq '("bar" "hbar" "hollow" "box")) )
>       (completing-read " Cursor: " cseq nil t "box"))))
> 
>   (pcase form
>     ("bar"
>      (set-default 'cursor-type 'bar)
>     ("hbar"
>      (set-default 'cursor-type 'hbar)
>     ("hollow"
>      (set-default 'cursor-type 'hollow)
>     ("box"
>      (set-default 'cursor-type 'box))) )

If I evaluate

    (let ( (cseq '("bar" "hbar" "hollow" "box")) )
      (completing-read " Cursor: " cseq nil t "box"))

then I can cycle through all the candidates with M-n and M-p.  TAB
doesn't do anything because the window showing the candidates is small
and shows all of them at once.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-13 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-12 22:14 bug#57163: completing-read not allow cycling of the options by default uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-13  4:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-08-13  6:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-13 14:32     ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-13 15:14       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-08-13 16:09         ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-13 17:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-13 18:15             ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-13 18:20               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-13 18:28                 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-13 18:46                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-13 19:31                     ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-14  5:55                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-14 16:14                         ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-14 16:18                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-14 16:34                             ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-14 16:51                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-14 17:11                                 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-16  5:24                               ` Jean Louis
2022-08-16  4:48                           ` Jean Louis
2022-08-16  5:07                             ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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