Re: feature/completions-highlight-modifications e3c5b99 3/6: Add completions-highlight-mode initial implementation.

[Juri Linkov]

> The real issue with that is not setting, but reseting. Because
> completions-list-map uses:
>
> 1. \e\e\e delete-completion-window
> 2. q quit-window
> 3. z kill-current-buffer
>
> to exit. In principle quit-window-hook works for 2. But for 1 we need
> an advise and rebind q and 3 is bind to z. so I am not clear what's the
> best approach or the consequences of changing
> them. But my proposal will be then make:
> q and z: self-insert (as they will call quit-window in the hook any way).

I see no problem in treating q and z as self-inserting characters
in this special mode.

> And rebind
> C-g: to kill-current-buffer. (I don't really know the difference between
> all them)

Or maybe better to bind C-g to abort-recursive-edit.

> The hook for self-insert is trivial. But it won't cover commands like
> delete-backward-char, backward-kill-word and so on.

So it seems more keys need to be bound in the completions buffer
to redirect their effect to the minibuffer.

> The trick there may be to throw the read-only error and call 1, 2 or
> 3... to go to the minibuffer when any command tries to modify
> "Completions* and try to execute there.
>
> But I don't know if it is possible to do that for a whole buffer or a
> map in a clean way and locally to a window/buffer only. Is it?

There keybindings could be added by a new mode enabled in the
completions buffer.