Re: ispell-change-dictionary does no SPC completion

[Dieter Wilhelm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     >     M-x ispell-change-dictionary
>     >     SPC
>     >
>     >     There is no completion of the *completions* buffer even though the
>     >     buffer does not fully display the alternatives.
>     >
>     > I do not understand those words.  What do you mean by "completion of
>     > the *completions* buffer"?
>     >
>
>     I'm sorry, I meant scrolling of the *completions* buffer (when there are
>     more completions in the buffer than the window displays).
>
> That is not a bug.  There is no feature to make SPC scroll in such
> situations.
>
> What led you to think that SPC would have this effect inside the
> minibuffer?

I see, in such situations it's TAB which scrolls and not SPC or ?, I'm
sorry for my confusion.  SPC and ? just skip back to the beginning of
the *completions* buffer.  Maybe the feature of <f1><f1> where it
explicitly tells us to use SPC to scroll the *help* buffer was
misleading to me and that I'm generally using more and more the SPC
key to scroll in other situations (e. g. in w3m buffers).

On the other hand it would be nice (and more consistent) for the other
completion commands besides TAB to exhibit the scrolling behaviour.
It is a bit frustrating that they are able to trigger a *completions*
buffer but can't scroll it.  Again this is just a suggestion, now that
I learned it I can live with TAB.

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany