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.help Subject: Re: Keybindings for navigating completing-read entries Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:01:39 +0300 Message-ID: <86sezst8f0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8FhIfayN1VoRgajIEzlCjAYa_oKsbOSOlwQCvxmpd5F5OLCNS_P2ZJqz5EWmtWTuuI7daiHv0lsweQaMjzuiSRnJlXJSNJN9gGnEdwzMRuo=@protonmail.com> <867ch4v2lf.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17228"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 11 14:02:39 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1rut8Y-0004GB-Rh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:02:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rut7p-0001MC-SZ; Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rut7m-0001GK-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rut7l-0003Km-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:01:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=pRF3B6aNxFMCnxedZXf9/hQln1G9RKx7cFIt8Up3vlQ=; b=Hkc8yHLd4LET lpX00tOveTaYKOvImavY1STxClG2yKKxnKDRw1Ui8vYu9H5/w1y4Zs5V6N5HGWQHYkkOmfL3rWDd5 4HU184tvr3pgqaoWF3U33pnkxIZv8BFpqbzY/E8SKGfp4a/H3qzso2F9Ilz8bs7S4YN/+m9GJrjmc Ny3zVyZYyq6tGEx5hjFP0E/Jd/OEXzC6SeRdwXU4GhWcpORXQ0mSvr97rCdnzFf6F5QKhN4xsFuQh xzovUV4maa6EN4qA1tJvhN4tK5dW/CbrE3fcLtNdQ2IzwTKKMCKO0O5euwfy3Rk3FiUUTHULigem9 vblaHBknSfoVzBOeP+Ft+g==; In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:32:46 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146308 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:32:46 +0000 > From: Heime > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > If you could describe in enough detail how you tried to search for > > those bindings, we could think about improving the documentation > > facilities to be more helpful in this matter. > > Started reading from through "21.6 Completion". You seem to be reading the wrong manual. Try reading "9.4 Completion" in the Emacs user manual instead. It describes the commands in the minibuffer when Emacs does completion, which is what you want. > Nevertheless, with completing-read the user simply gets a prompt > without much indication about completion frameworks and about > any keybinding shortcuts to traverse entries. Actually, if you type ? (question mark) at the prompt, Emacs will pop up a buffer with some useful commands.