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Contovounesios" > To: jaime.escalante@gmx.com > Cc: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" , 48764@debbugs.gnu.org > Subject: Re: bug#48764: mini-buffer completion > > jaime.escalante@gmx.com writes: > > >> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 8:46 AM > >> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" > >> To: jaime.escalante@gmx.com > >> Cc: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" , 48764@debbugs.gnu.org > >> Subject: Re: bug#48764: mini-buffer completion > >> > >> jaime.escalante@gmx.com writes: > >> > >> > How about mini-buffer entries that require user writing a string. = How would > >> > a user figure out what to do? > >> > > >> > Is there any information about basic navigation keys for mini-buffe= r input in the manual? > >> > >> Does the node (info "(emacs) Minibuffer History")[1] in the Emacs man= ual > >> count? FWIW, it can be found through index entries such as 'minibuff= er > >> history', 'M-n (minibuffer history)', 'DOWN (minibuffer history)', et= c. > > > > I would like to see some indication of the type of input it requires. > > How does the type of input it requires differ from the type of input > required in any other Emacs buffer? It seems to me that you got to know exactly what to do, and I tend to forg= et when I do not use a feature for some time. > > Perhaps that information can go on the mode-line (for instance some ty= pe > > of designated coloured mouse button for mini-buffer information). > > > >> For more details on minibuffer keymaps there's also > >> (info "(emacs) Minibuffer Maps")[2], found e.g. via the index entry > >> 'C-h r i minibuffer key TAB RET'. > >> > >> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Minibu= ffer-History.html > >> [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Minibu= ffer-Maps.html > >> > >> HTH, > > -- > Basil >