bug#48764: mini-buffer completion

[jaime . escalante]

> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 10:50 AM
> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
> To: jaime.escalante@gmx.com
> Cc: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>, 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" <contovob@tcd.ie>
> >> To: jaime.escalante@gmx.com
> >> Cc: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>, 48764@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Subject: 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-buffer 
> >> > input in the manual?
> >>
> >> Does the node (info "(emacs) Minibuffer History")[1] in the Emacs manual
> >> count?  FWIW, it can be found through index entries such as 'minibuffer
> >> history', 'M-n (minibuffer history)', 'DOWN (minibuffer history)', etc.
> >
> > We are not really talking about mini-buffer history, but mini-buffer input.
>
> The OP refers to <up> and <down>.  In the minibuffer, these keys by
> default navigate so-called "minibuffer history", where e.g. <down>
> inserts "future" history, AKA the next default value.  So <down> is
> actually "navigating" the list of defaults (completing-read's 7th
> argument), not the list of completions (completing-read's 2nd argument).

For me it was just about cycling through a list of possible inputs.
Correct, it is not about list of completions, but navigating the list
of defaults.  I write a lot of code and cannot always remember what
I would be having for input.


> If this is not the kind of input you're referring to, then could you
> please clarify which input you're referring to?
>
> >> 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/Minibuffer-History.html
> >> [2]: 
> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Minibuffer-Maps.html
> >>
> >> HTH,
>
> --
> Basil
>