Completion Commands
Here is a list of the completion commands defined in the minibuffer
when completion is available.
- <TAB>
- Complete the text in the minibuffer as much as possible
(
minibuffer-complete).
- <SPC>
- Complete the minibuffer text, but don't go beyond one word
(
minibuffer-complete-word).
- <RET>
- Submit the text in the minibuffer as the argument, possibly completing
first as described below (
minibuffer-complete-and-exit).
- ?
- Display a list of all possible completions of the text in the minibuffer
(
minibuffer-list-completions).
<SPC> completes much like <TAB>, but never goes beyond the
next hyphen or space. If you have auto-f in the minibuffer and
type <SPC>, it finds that the completion is auto-fill-mode,
but it stops completing after fill-. This gives
auto-fill-. Another <SPC> at this point completes all the
way to auto-fill-mode. The command that implements this
behavior is called minibuffer-complete-word.
Here are some commands you can use to choose a completion from a
window that displays a list of completions:
- Mouse-2
- Clicking mouse button 2 on a completion in the list of possible
completions chooses that completion (
mouse-choose-completion).
You normally use this command while point is in the minibuffer, but you
must click in the list of completions, not in the minibuffer itself.
- <PRIOR>
- M-v
- Typing <PRIOR> or <PAGE-UP>, or M-v, while in the
minibuffer, selects the window showing the completion list buffer
(
switch-to-completions). This paves the way for using the
commands below. (Selecting that window in the usual ways has the same
effect, but this way is more convenient.)
- <RET>
- Typing <RET> in the completion list buffer chooses the
completion that point is in or next to (
choose-completion). To
use this command, you must first switch windows to the window that shows
the list of completions.
- <RIGHT>
- Typing the right-arrow key <RIGHT> in the completion list
buffer moves point to the following completion (
next-completion).
- <LEFT>
- Typing the left-arrow key <LEFT> in the completion list
buffer moves point toward the beginning of the buffer, to the previous
completion (
previous-completion).
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