GNU bug report logs - #56489
Incomplete description of Completion Commands in Emacs Manual an Lisp Reference

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: carlmarcos <at> tutanota.com

Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

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From: carlmarcos <at> tutanota.com
To: Bug Gnu Emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Incomplete description of Completion Commands in Emacs Manual an
 Lisp Reference
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:42:13 +0200 (CEST)

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I am using completing-read, but am finding it laborious to find information regarding Completion Commands.

In the Emacs Manual there is "8.4.2 Completion Commands" and in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual there is "21.6.3 Minibuffer Commands that Do Completion".  Although the aforementioned sections do describe the result of using "TAB" and "?" to display the list of completion, I do not think the information is incomplete because one can also move from one completion entry to another using the up and down arrows.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: carlmarcos <at> tutanota.com
Cc: 56489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56489: Incomplete description of Completion Commands in
 Emacs Manual an Lisp Reference
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:02:22 +0200

carlmarcos <at> tutanota.com writes:

> In the Emacs Manual there is "8.4.2 Completion Commands" and in the
> Emacs Lisp Reference Manual there is "21.6.3 Minibuffer Commands that
> Do Completion".  Although the aforementioned sections do describe the
> result of using "TAB" and "?"  to display the list of completion, I do
> not think the information is incomplete because one can also move from
> one completion entry to another using the up and down arrows.

The arrow keys don't do anything completion-related -- they move through
the command history.

Closing.

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