From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 'Emacs-Devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: FW: Minibuf menu when minibuffer is standalone
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:50:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8x0pue6t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D6FC28.2090306@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:39:52 +0100")
> For learning perhaps? Maybe not very useful for you though ... ;-)
> However looking at the Minibuff menu when doing C-x C-f in CVS Emacs 23
> I see a little bit strangeness:
> Minibuff
> Complete -- TAB
> Complete Word
> List Completions -- ?
> Previous History Item -- M-p
> Next History Item -- M-n
> Isearch History Backward -- C-r
> Isearch History Forward -- C-s
> Enter -- C-j
> Quit -- M-ESC ESC
> I would perhaps expect some to be different
> Previous History Item -- up
> Next History Item -- down
> Quit -- C-g
> It seems like the choice of keybinding to show could be done better.
The Quit one looks bad indeed. The other 2 are right: we want to show
the bindings which work everywhere whenever possible, whereas `up' and
`down' keys may not always be available.
> Enter -- C-j
> I do not understand that one at all.
That's not too good either, indeed, but I don't see it here (it just
doesn't say anything at all for me).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-11 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-11 19:08 FW: Minibuf menu when minibuffer is standalone Drew Adams
2008-03-11 19:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-11 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-11 21:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-11 21:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-03-11 22:05 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-12 1:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13 2:01 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-11 23:11 ` Drew Adams
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