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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: completion-styles and moving the minibuffer point
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:34:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6j2wio7.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)


My completion-styles set to

  '(basic initials partial-completion substring)

which is close to perfect for me.

I find it hard to verbalize an annoyance in understanding when
what completion-styles move the point around in the minibuffer. Maybe an
example might help: When selecting a buffer with C-x b, I might have two
buffers open "*Help*" and "*Bug Help*". Typing "Help<tab>" adds a "*",
but another <tab> does nothing. I have to manually C-a to the beginning
of the input and <tab> again for something to happen.

Sometimes Emacs moves the cursor automatically to wherever the possible
input diverges. I haven't understood when or why this happens, but I'd
like to have this happen more often. Does anyone know how?

-- 
	Philip Kaludercic



             reply	other threads:[~2021-10-21 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-21 14:34 Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2021-10-23 15:19 ` completion-styles and moving the minibuffer point Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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