Re: Difficult to get out the completions window

[Nick Roberts]

Lennart Borgman writes:
 > It is quite difficult to close the completion window once you have 
 > entered it (with M-v for example). I suggest the following behaviour 
 > when focus is in the completion window:
 > 
 > 1) On C-g close the completion window and move back to the minibuffer. 
 > This is what happens if you type ESC ESC ESC which runs 
 > delete-completion-window.
 > 
 > 2) If the completion window is closed with C-x 0 then move back to the 
 > minibuffer.

These are global bindings, I don't think that they should be locally rebound.

 > BTW nothing is said in the Emacs manual "(emacs) Completion Commands" 
 > about how to get out of the completion window.

You need to go back to the minibuffer before typing C-g, but that's the case
for any command which prompts in the minibuffer if you switch windows, even
without completion.


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