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RE: feature/completions-highlight-modifications e3c5b99 3/6: Add complet


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: feature/completions-highlight-modifications e3c5b99 3/6: Add completions-highlight-mode initial implementation.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:45:08 -0800 (PST)

Responding to some of what you say there, comparing
with Icicles, as food for thought.

With Icicles there are pair of keys for cycling
forward and backward: `down' and `up' arrows.

But you can also just continue to use `TAB' (which
completes, as usual), to cycle forward.  This is
handy.  When you want to cycle backward, use `up'.

[And no, `S-TAB' does not cycle backward.  In Icicles,
`S-TAB' and `TAB' act similarly, but provide different
kinds of completion.]
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You say that such highlighting is limited to when
all candidates are visible in *Completions*.  That's
not the case in Icicles.  The current candidate, which
is the one that's highlighted, is always visible (if
*Completions* is shown).
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In Icicles you need not show *Completions* to cycle
candidates.  Cycling still places candidates, one by
one, in the minibuffer.  (You can complete without
showing *Completions* by using `C-M-TAB' instead of
`TAB'.)






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