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Tintware Documentation : Tint Emacs : GNU Emacs Compatibility : The Minibuffer

The Minibuffer

The minibuffer in Tint Emacs works very similarly to that in GNU Emacs. Tab and Space (which are both bound to minibuffer-complete) will attempt to complete the text in the minibuffer. If it can not do any completion it will display a buffer of possible completions. Enter (which is bound to minibuffer-complete-and-exit) will attempt to complete the text in the minibuffer; if there is a single completion it will exit. ? (which is bound to minibuffer-list-completions) will display a buffer listing all possible completions. These all work the same as in GNU Emacs.

M-n (which is bound to next-history-element) and M-p (which is bound to previous-history-element) allow you to move back and forth through a list of argument strings entered into the minibuffer. These all work the same as GNU Emacs.

C-x Esc Esc (which is bound to repeat-complex-command) is used to reexecute a minibuffer command. M-x list-command-history is used to show the entire command history for the minibuffer. These work almost the same as GNU Emacs. Tint Emacs uses Tint rather than Lisp.

switch-to-completions (which is typically bound to M-v), previous-matching-history-element (which is typically bound to M-r), and next-matching-history-element (which is typically bound to M-s) are not currently supported in Tint Emacs. Finally, Space is bound to minibuffer-complete rather than minibuffer-complete-word.

In a completion list buffer, Left Arrow (which is bound to previous-completion) moves to the previous completion. Right Arrow (which is bound to next-completion) moves to the next completion. Enter (which is bound to choose-completion) selects that the cursor is in or next to. These all work the same as GNU Emacs.