Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:

[Chong Yidong]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> I think the only problem preventing this change is one completion message
> that overwrites the minibuffer when TAB doesn't find a completion.
> I propose the patch below similar to the patch I proposed for the
> shell command minibuffer completion.
>
> When this is fixed, it makes sense to allow TAB to complete a lisp
> symbol part of the eval-expression minibuffer in the same way as TAB
> will allow completion of command name and file name parts of the
> shell-command minibuffer.

The discussion seems to have been badly sidetracked.

The patch looks good.  Please install it.