Re: Keybindings for navigating completing-read entries

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Friday, April 12th, 2024 at 4:23 AM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

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> On Friday, April 12th, 2024 at 12:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
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> > > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:32:46 +0000
> > > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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> > > > If you could describe in enough detail how you tried to search for
> > > > those bindings, we could think about improving the documentation
> > > > facilities to be more helpful in this matter.
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> > > Started reading from through "21.6 Completion".
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> > You seem to be reading the wrong manual. Try reading "9.4 Completion"
> > in the Emacs user manual instead. It describes the commands in the
> > minibuffer when Emacs does completion, which is what you want.
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> The html user manual uses bullets. Could you introduce the section
> numbering instead, as it is more useful.

I must have encountered another version, rather than the official gnu one.
 
> > > Nevertheless, with completing-read the user simply gets a prompt
> > > without much indication about completion frameworks and about
> > > any keybinding shortcuts to traverse entries.
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> > Actually, if you type ? (question mark) at the prompt, Emacs will pop
> > up a buffer with some useful commands.