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From: ellis@ultra.dec.com (David Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: problem with emacs' M-x
Message-ID: <11834@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 12:09:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 12:09:00 1987
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John Knutson (auscso!johnk) asks:
 
> I was trying to figure out what things are available through M-x by typing ?
> and emacs said "Making completions list".  it split the window and had a
> buffer called *Completions* so i pressed return at the M-x prompt to change
> to that buffer.  but, when i did that it killed the buffer.  i also tried
> typing switch-to-buffer at the M-x prompt and that didn't work either.  can
> someone tell me how i can look at other than the first 8 lines of the
> completions list????  

When the *Completions** buffer appears, the cursor is still in the 
mini-buffer (bottom line of the screen) awaiting a command.  You can at this
point get into the *Completions** buffer by typing C-x o (which runs the 
other-window command) twice.  Now you are free to scroll around.  But note
that the mini-buffer is still awaiting your previous command!  You will 
eventually need to get back to that buffer and then either finish the command 
or issue C-g to abort.

In some circumstances, Emacs will allow you to stack other minibuffer-using
commands on top of the one you moved away from.  However, you can easily 
get confused if you do this, so I would recommend it only when you become 
more comfortable with Emacs.

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David Ellis
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