[Conkeror] bugfix: minibuffer history if match required

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard jeremy at jeremyms.com
Sun Nov 2 20:13:27 PST 2008


marting at gmx.ch writes:

> marting at gmx.ch writes:
> [..]

>> Of course, a workaround to this would be to enable auto completion for
>> the command history as well -- but how to do this? It seems like
>> minibuffer_auto_complete_preferences is ignored in this case. Is that
>> right? And why?

> Please ignore what I said above. I now see that
> minibuffer_auto_complete_preferences is not the right variable for this
> anyway.

> My question was actually this: Is it possible to make the command
> history behave as for example the url history in that selecting an entry
> in the completion panel automatically updates the minibuffer input? And
> I now realize that this can be done only by setting match_required to
> false or by changing the condition whether to update the minibuffer
> input to not depend on match_required (but on a new user variable,
> say). But I guess you wouldn't want to change that, right?

I think the behavior can be improved by doing something like that, and I
think it would be a good thing to do.  It just requires a bit of thought
about the best way to do things.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard


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