Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Despite the dialogs, I tend to run my other editor entirely from the
>> keyboard.
>> 
>> In the Xemacs conmpletions buffer there is no hint of how to do this
>
> Doesn't it say something like 
>
>   In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
>
> ?

It does -- this is what it looks like in XEmacs:

Click button2up on a completion to select it.
Type M-v or prior to move to this buffer, for keyboard selection.

Possible completions are:
[...]

XEmacs's keyboard selection in the completion buffer is even made to
more closely resemble to "traditional" model of selecting things --
for example, arrow keys move by items, not by characters in the
buffer.  Try it out and you'll see what I mean.