Re: vertical fido-mode

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 18.06.2020 00:50, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> Actually the hardest question is to decide what keys to use
>> to navigate completions in the vertical layout.  It would be
>> natural to use arrow keys and M-p/n, but there keys are used
>> for history navigation in the minibuffer.
>
> I think C-n/P-n is what users would expect. See Ivy, Helm, etc.
>
> Arrow keys, too.

As a former Ivy user who went back to icomplete and is now following
this thread with a lot of attention, my vote also goes for C-n/C-p for
next/previous candidate selection, and M-n/M-p for history navigation.

(Actually, I wouldn't mind C-n/C-p in regular (non-vertical) icomplete;
C-. is not super-ergonomic on AZERTY.  I liked C-M-i, but it's been
decommissioned in Emacs 27…)