Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI

[Juri Linkov]

>> > Many people access `previous-history-element' in the minibuffer through
>> > the up arrow, so I hope it is not commandeered for this purpose.
>>
>> The web browsers solve this problem by combining completions for
>> history and suggestions in the same list (separated by a horizontal line).
>
> The problem with that is that the resulting list is frustratingly
> long.

The browsers put the most frequently visited history items at the top.
As I see icomplete does the same when displaying completions in the
minibuffer.  So items could be sorted either by frequency or by recency
in the *Completions* buffer as well.