Re: [External] : Re: Completions and history

[Juri Linkov]

>> Maybe the same key `C-c C-l' could be bound by default
>> in the minibuffer to enable history completion?
>
> Discussing default keybindings tends to be rather unfruitful, but still:
> unless I'm missing something, `M-r' (previous-matching-history-element)
> is strictly less powerful than `C-M-r' (isearch-backward-regexp).
> History completion is quite handy and would be a better use for `M-r' in
> my opinion.

In comint/shell `M-r' runs history isearch, so it would add
more confusion when it will be bound to history completion.