Subject: bug#13602: 24.3.50; remove bindings for `icomplete-minibuffer-map' - make a separate mode

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:28:46 -0800

> >> So you're voting for C-left/C-right?  OK, noted.
> >
> > Also not great.  Removes two useful editing keys from
> > the minibuffer (`backward-word', `forward-word').
> 
> M-x where-is RET tells me there is an escape route.
> backward-word is on M-b, ESC <left>
> forward-word  is on M-f, ESC <right>

More workaround advice.  But yes, these keys are so useful that emacs -Q binds
them by default to multiple key sequences.  Users have various use patterns.