Re: Completions and history

[Juri Linkov]

> I am wondering if we have some feature to list the minibuffer history
> vanilla for example in completions. In ivy there was C-r which switched
> completions to the minibuffer-history; icycles had a similar feature;
> and helm also had something; but in the default completion system there
> is not such feature as far as I know.
>
> Some commands like previous-line-or-history-element or the
> un-docummented previous-complete-history-element do part of the work,
> but there is no way to list the history and select which may be useful
> for find-file or M-: to repeat previous actions. The information is
> there...
>
> I suppose that this has been discussed before... so is there a reason
> why this has not been implemented? Should I open a feature request or is
> someone already opened?

Indeed, this has been discussed recently in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg00802.html
but no feature request was opened, since C-TAB is already taken by
file-cache-minibuffer-complete.