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

From: Jambunathan K <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:12:38 +0530

Jambunathan K <[email-masked]> writes:

> "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> > `M-x list- <C-right> <C-right> C-RET'
>>> 
>>> 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>

I have opened a new bug and put my offerings there.

See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13708

>> But again, if the use of keys is optional and easily toggled, and especially if
>> it is turned off by default, then it doesn't matter so much which keys you
>> choose.