From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57423: Completions Buffer requiring window switching or mouse activity Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:09:26 +0300 Message-ID: <835yif359l.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40074"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 57423@debbugs.gnu.org To: wilnerthomas@tutanota.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 08:14:06 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSbV-000AIx-NE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:14:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39106 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSbU-0007Rm-NN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSXd-0004tC-Ef for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSXa-0005yj-Qh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSXa-0003Ia-Ca for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:10:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57423 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 57423-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57423.166149416212629 (code B ref 57423); Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57423) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Aug 2022 06:09:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51849 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSWw-0003Hc-A3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49532) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSWu-0003HO-2w for 57423@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSWo-0005uU-I7; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:09:14 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=rJlpK4qt1LSWpFTIG8NVHFF/wJOrjgNXaOiZCIFhaZg=; b=UafKjU3E0pv/0XAsfkxd 1vSPes7a1lMn1ZUB7W/AsPohoQWf9mhshGR+JnptnatqSaflknvukfvpbxsdCtJhXxxUI20Y+FbXu 6o9V5rcwE30Axp9TdBVliieEUIGeCqrBeYsJXa70z1+vRP1i8APW/9HGlU8+KfE1/HaCx64N0i41M 2pGhjw9gjJSCmJJa7KqY1rttvwF47iFPzp6TfPT0p10eRcLZXsCWBzmMJKr+Dsgghh1rqS083q9bn u/dVIfhc59d1GbSAEJh87/LH4Nd0R7QDARMYHB1XM8dqt5DEXQkzwX3i+h1IVUtn3NbkER59R1fjt VoTtScf+NddtSA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4900 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSWo-0002rH-1I; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:09:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:240773 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:18:58 +0200 (CEST) > From: wilnerthomas--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, > the Swiss army knife of text editors" > > > Using  "M-x COMMAND TAB"  to display minibuffer commands, one gets a > temporary Completions Buffer that says > > Click on a completion to select it > > Consequently, one cannot complete or go through the possibilities in the minibuffer, > but am being forced to either switch to it with "C-x o" a couple of times, or having > to use the mouse. You don't need to switch or use the mouse. You can instead: . keep typing TAB to scroll through the full list of completion candidates (if the full list takes more than a single window to show), or . type more text in the minibuffer, then press TAB again, to narrow the list of candidates -- the next letter which will narrow the list is displayed in bold in the list of the candidates, or . in Emacs 29, you can type M- and M- arrow keys to select the candidates > An effective way that improves the frequent minibuffer activity (e.g. icomplete lets user > select a completion without having to smitch windows), emacs can automatically switch > to the completions buffer so one can get to a possible selection using the arrow keys. In Emacs 29, there's a new variable 'completion-auto-select', which does precisely that.