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Re: FW: Minibuf menu when minibuffer is standalone
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: FW: Minibuf menu when minibuffer is standalone |
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Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:50:38 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> For learning perhaps? Maybe not very useful for you though ... ;-)
> However looking at the Minibuff menu when doing C-x C-f in CVS Emacs 23
> I see a little bit strangeness:
> Minibuff
> Complete -- TAB
> Complete Word
> List Completions -- ?
> Previous History Item -- M-p
> Next History Item -- M-n
> Isearch History Backward -- C-r
> Isearch History Forward -- C-s
> Enter -- C-j
> Quit -- M-ESC ESC
> I would perhaps expect some to be different
> Previous History Item -- up
> Next History Item -- down
> Quit -- C-g
> It seems like the choice of keybinding to show could be done better.
The Quit one looks bad indeed. The other 2 are right: we want to show
the bindings which work everywhere whenever possible, whereas `up' and
`down' keys may not always be available.
> Enter -- C-j
> I do not understand that one at all.
That's not too good either, indeed, but I don't see it here (it just
doesn't say anything at all for me).
Stefan
RE: FW: Minibuf menu when minibuffer is standalone, Drew Adams, 2008/03/11