Re: "cancelling" menu completion?

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:

> Is there any way to "cancel" completion, when meny completion is active? The
> possible meaning of "cancel" can be
> 
>  - remove anything that was inserted by completion code and restore the
> original string
>  - remove the part of word being completed (possibly ignoring IPREFIX)
> 
> To illustrate the latter: suppose you complete
> 
>   dd if=/a/b/c
> 
> and after menu completion has started, you found, it was somewhat wrong :-)
> So, I'd like to remove anything that was inserted but leave ``dd if='' in
> place.

Not yet. We have this `discussion' (well, at least we mentioned it
already) about giving information about the `current' state to
completion widgets. I.e. information like `there is already a se of
matches', `the matches are listed', etc. Then we would like to have a
way to say what should be done with this list (`ignore it, build a new 
one', `use it, but do ... next', etc). Anyone who wants to think about 
this is welcome.

For further information, see 5479, 5501, 5551 and probably others I
have forgotten.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de