From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `completing-read` without RET Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:45:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <46dc9263-f168-4f2e-b052-120e1184fcba@default> <0ac94945-fe1d-486f-8668-c2f34167617f@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457736635 23462 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2016 22:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:50:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 23:50:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVsz-0005IN-DS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:50:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVsy-0001NZ-Kg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVso-0001Mh-L8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVsl-0004aW-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:50:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVsl-0004Zl-9n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVsh-00055x-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-161-194.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.161.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-161-194.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:50:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-161-194.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E3A3Fqsv9K4s8hkLnHpp3Maa7vk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109545 Archived-At: > If you hit TAB and there is only one matching candidate, the > OP wants that candidate to be chosen (returned). Right, that's why I'm saying "use RET not TAB". AFAIK (s)he never needs to use TAB in such completions, always using RET will give h(er|im) the behavior (s)he wants (either complete, or select the sole completion). Stefan