[gnu.emacs.bug] ? in completion

mcgrath%paris.Berkeley.EDU@ginger.berkeley.edu (Roland McGrath) (04/30/89)

It is apparently an undocumented feature that hitting `?'
in a completing-read or whatever gives you a list of completions.
I don't think this is particularly useful, since TAB will do that,
but complete as much as possible first.
It also precludes filenames containing `?' (admittedly rare).

kayvan@APPLE.COM (05/02/89)

| Date: Sat, 29 Apr 89 13:31:22 PDT
| From: Roland McGrath <apple!ginger.berkeley.edu!mcgrath%paris.Berkeley.EDU>
| 
| It is apparently an undocumented feature that hitting `?'
| in a completing-read or whatever gives you a list of completions.
| I don't think this is particularly useful, since TAB will do that,
| but complete as much as possible first.
| It also precludes filenames containing `?' (admittedly rare).

You can type C-q ? to get the '?' in the filename.

The feature is also documented. Look at the Completion node of the
Emacs manual (C-h i m Emacs RET m Completion RET).

			---Kayvan