Re: Navigating completions from minibuffer

[Juri Linkov]

>> A possible workaround would be to check the special property
>> 'first-completion'.  But then when the logic uses text properties,
>> why not to use more text properties that indicate that a candidate
>> is deselected (and remove highlighting in this case) instead of
>> moving point somewhere outside of the candidate?
>
> Even if we work around this with text properties, I think it's nice for
> deselection to be usually determined by location of point.  I think
> that's easier to understand for the user - they should be able to
> deselect or reselect something purely by moving point around, it
> shouldn't require text property manipulation.

I agree that it's better to indicate deselection by moving point.

After more testing I found a small problem:

  M-x calc TAB TAB

When the selected candidate is

  calc-dispatch (C-x *)

then point is moved before the suffix "(C-x *)",
and after editing it is selected on RET.