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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 56489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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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