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

[Maciej Katafiasz]

Den Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:33:15 +0200 skrev 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.

Okay, so it says key-name :alt-left, there's more info, but no way to 
copy or paste it, so the best I could do is to give you a screenshot :). 
Incidentally, there's also no way to paste into Climacs from the outside 
world, neither PRIMARY (ie. middle click) nor CLIPBOARD (ie. clipboard) 
seem to work.
 
>> 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.

Ah, I see. And is there a way to get a listener inside Climacs?

Cheers,
Maciej