[climacs-devel] UI issues: Meta and completion display

[Troels Henriksen]

Maciej Katafiasz <mathrick at gmail.com> writes:

> it seems that there's no way to get minibuffer to display a list of 
> possible completions (ie. the thing you get by dashing TAB). That is a 
> huge setback if you're trying to see what might be applicable.

You can right-click the mouse to get a list of completions, and
there's also some keyboard gesture that I can never remember... try
C-/.

> Another thing is that Climacs apparently doesn't see my Alt at all, which 
> I'd very much like it to see as Meta. Otherwise I'm left with ESC-, and 
> that's not the most funniest way to get at things.

How does xev see your Alt key? Even better, how does CLIM see it? Open
a Lisp syntax buffer in Climacs, evaluate (describe
(clim:read-gesture)), then press your Alt key.

> PS. Related to my blind searching above, is there a REPL to be had in 
> Lisp mode?

No, but if you evaluate stuff from the buffer, output will be visible
in a special view. Also, if you push stuff onto the kill ring from
Climacs, you can yank it in the CLIM Listener.

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