Re: Completions and history

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 19:40, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 07:56:58PM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> I am wondering if we have some feature to list the minibuffer history
>>> vanilla for example in completions. In ivy there was C-r which switched
>>> completions to the minibuffer-history; icycles had a similar feature;
>>> and helm also had something; but in the default completion system there
>>> is not such feature as far as I know.

For the record, Consult provides exactly that command (consult-history)
and it works beautifully.  The same command also works in a few special
modes like eshell and comint that have a notion of history.

Unlike Ivy, the Consult command is not tied to a specific completion
framework (I don't know how Icicles is in that regard).