GNU bug report logs - #50394
Improve "Completion List Mode" NEWS entry

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 05:29:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 50394 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: ghe <at> sdf.org, 50394 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50394: Improve "Completion List Mode" NEWS entry
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 09:41:20 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 07:27:50 +0200
> Cc: gregory heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>
> 
> ** Completion List Mode
> New key bindings have been added: 'n' and 'p' to navigate completions,
> and 'M-g M-c' to switch to the minibuffer, and you can also switch back
> to the completion list buffer with 'M-g M-c'.
> 
> I suspect that most users have no idea what is "completion list mode",

If they don't, they could just do

  C-h f completion-list-mode RET

and read there.

> as IIUC it is an implementation detail.

??? No, it's a complete major mode, according to its doc string.
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