bug#17767: 24.4.50; [PATCH] Bind tab and backtab in completion lists

[Matthias Meulien]

Two bindings that ease completion selection in completion lists.

>From 7b61f2ae2acda2d3eb59ffc2a9df8da132d77297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 01:10:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Bind tab and backtab in completion lists

---
 lisp/simple.el | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index cde1699..bd31b94 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -6977,6 +6977,8 @@ With a prefix argument, set VARIABLE to VALUE 
buffer-locally."
     (define-key map "\e\e\e" 'delete-completion-window)
     (define-key map [left] 'previous-completion)
     (define-key map [right] 'next-completion)
+    (define-key map [tab] 'next-completion)
+    (define-key map [backtab] 'previous-completion)
     (define-key map "q" 'quit-window)
     (define-key map "z" 'kill-this-buffer)
     map)
-- 
2.0.0




In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.12.2)
 of 2014-05-27 on choubidou
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Org

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  flyspell-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  global-auto-complete-mode: t
  global-semantic-mru-bookmark-mode: t
  global-semanticdb-minor-mode: t
  global-semantic-idle-scheduler-mode: t
  semantic-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  electric-pair-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  use-hard-newlines: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  auto-fill-function: org-auto-fill-function
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-b M-b M-b <M-backspace> b a c k C-x C-s C-n C-n C-n 
C-x d <return> C-x M-o C-s s i m p l e C-n <f9> M-p 
M-p <return> C-c C-p C-c C-p C-c C-p C-s . e l . C-s 
C-n M-> M-p M-p <return> C-x b M-v <tab> C-x k C-x 
4 f <M-backspace> <M-backspace> p r o <tab> e m <tab> 
p a t <tab> <return> g n n <return> C-x o g i t SPC 
s t a t u s <return> C-c C-p <C-return> C-g M-> C-x 
v d <return> M-< n n n n n n C-v C-v C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n v T a b SPC a n d SPC <M-backspace> <M-backspace> 
B i n d SPC t a b SPC a n d SPC b a c k t a b SPC t 
o SPC <M-backspace> i n SPC c o m p l e t i o n SPC 
l i s t s C-c C-c q g i t SPC f o r m <tab> a t - p 
a t c h SPC H E A D <return> l l <return> g i t SPC 
c l o g SPC - 1 <return> SPC <return> M-p M-p M-p . 
. <return> M-p M-b M-f ~ <return> m v SPC 0 0 <tab> 
~ / P r <tab> j <backspace> e m a <tab> p a t <tab> 
<return> C-x C-f M-p M-p 0 0 0 1 - b i n <tab> <return> 
C-x 4 b s i m <tab> <return> C-v C-v C-v C-v M-v M-< 
C-x k <return> M-x e m a c s SPC b u g <tab> <M-backspace> 
r e p <tab> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> r e p o r t 
SPC <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Ispell process killed
Starting new Ispell process /usr/bin/aspell with english dictionary...
Mark set
Press C-c C-c when you are done editing.
Enter a change comment.  Type C-c C-c when done
Checking in /home/matthias/Sources/emacs/lisp/simple.el...done
No match
Mark set
Ispell process killed
Starting new Ispell process /usr/bin/aspell with en dictionary...

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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Memory information:
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 (symbols 48 54363 0)
 (miscs 40 9360 511)
 (strings 32 327260 16344)
 (string-bytes 1 6006216)
 (vectors 16 61615)
 (vector-slots 8 1739608 113512)
 (floats 8 365 542)
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