Re: Select completions from the minibuffer

[Juri Linkov]

>> Oh, this is bug#34517 and bug#49931.  So we need to finish fixing this now.
>
> Ah -- I've also seen that weird behaviour sometimes, but never pinned
> down why it's happening.
>
> I think clicking something in *Completions* should select that, and
> ignore what the user has (probably accidentally) typed into the
> minibuffer after TAB-ing.  (Perhaps with a user option?)

I posted a patch to bug#49931 that adds a new user option.
Maybe it could be enabled by default?

>>> Perhaps it should also highlight the current choice in the
>>> *Completions* buffer?  It moves point in the buffer, but that's a
>>> too-subtle hint, I think.
>>
>> Ergus already added completions-highlight-mode
>> in the feature/completions-customs branch.
>> But maybe it could enabled by default?
>
> Or perhaps `M-<up>' etc should enable it?

`M-<up>' in bug#49931 let-binds the new user option,
so it could let-bind completions-highlight-mode as well.