From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fork Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emulate readline Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <83bp0juult.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302194751 29969 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2011 16:45:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:45:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 18:45:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7sL4-0000tH-HV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:45:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44416 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7sL3-0003Yt-K7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47067 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7sKG-0003ON-MJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7sKF-0006fv-C2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7sKF-0006eF-1e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:44:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7sK7-0000Ey-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:44:48 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.239.99.92 ([198.239.99.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:44:47 +0200 Original-Received: from forkandwait by 198.239.99.92 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:44:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 198.239.99.92 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80670 Archived-At: verizon.net> writes: > > Well, I just tried what seemed "intuitive" and it seems to work. > > I typed: > > M-x > > then > > m C-r This works as designed, but the design isn't what I want. I want to be able to type the first few letters and hit an arrow key and see the options that match the first few letters. The wiki has a recipe that seems to be working (thanks to Le Wang): http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MinibufferHistory