Re: [PATCH] Re: Other details about completion.

[Juri Linkov]

> Yes but there are three key differences there: 1) browsers show the
> completion list immediately (like icomplete and
> it's family), so they don't require a tab to show the completion list or
> any binding to jump to/exit the completions list either.

We could add a new variable or a new value to completion-auto-help
to show the completions buffer on any edit.

> 2) the browser completions are shown vertically only, so no horizontal
> navigation is needed and not modifiers to the keys are needed either as
> there is not any collision of bindings.

<M-left> and <M-right> can be activated in the minibuffer only
when the completions buffer shows more than 1 column.  Maybe
there is already a variable to detect this situation?

> 3) The search they perform is on the history, so when the candidate is
> unique it is inserted and selected, so easier to erase the suffix if
> needed with backspace or insert at the end (right arrow).

This is not what I see, candidates are not selected.
Maybe you use other browsers versions.

> BTW: do we have any sort of history search based on the inserted text
> like bash history-search-backward??

It's just 'C-r C-w' in the minibuffer.