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Re: master f6967d2 1/3: Allow for the completion buffer to be automatica


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: master f6967d2 1/3: Allow for the completion buffer to be automatically selected
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:34:53 +0200

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:02:59 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>
> 
> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
> 
> >> What would you think about completion-auto-select could also be set to a
> >> number, indicating how many non-completions have to be made before
> >> *Completions* is selected?
> >
> > So when completion-auto-select is 1 then select the completions buffer on
> > the first TAB?  When 2, then the second TAB will select it instead of
> > starting to scroll the completions buffer.  But I don't think anyone might
> > want to customize it to a number more than 2.
> 
> Probably true, but if you implement support for 1 and 2, all other
> natnums are trivial.
> 
> But on second thought, this won't do the job either, since scrolling on
> tab and selecting on tab are always in conflict with one another.

Indeed, if we ever want to have some of these features turned ON by
default, they cannot be on TAB.



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