Chapters:
1: Introduction
2: Simple example
3: Invocation
4: Finer Control
5: X-Y Plots
6: Contour Plots
7: Image Plots
8: Examples
9: Gri Commands
10: Programming
11: Environment
12: Emacs Mode
13: History
14: Installation
15: Gri Bugs
16: Test Suite
17: Gri in Press
18: Acknowledgments
19: License
Indices:
Concepts
Commands
Variables

### 12.4.2: Possible completions of gri command names

When you press ``M-tab`' to complete a command name (or a variable or synonym name as described below), gri-mode will expand it as much as it can and do nothing further. If you type in nothing more and insist by using ``gri-complete`' (``M-tab`') again, gri-mode will respond by showing all possible completions in the ``*completions*`' buffer. In this way you can use ``gri-complete`' word-by-word to abbreviate commands without ever displaying completions, like you would for file completion in emacs or bash.

If a completion is ambiguous, but could be exact, invoke gri-complete a second time to complete it. e.g.

    sh`M-tab'

expands to

    show

and informs you that 12 possible completions exists; then

    show`M-tab'

will display these completions in the completions buffer; then typing ``M-tab`' again forces completion to a complete but not unique possibility:

    show .value.|{rpn ...}|"\text" [.value.|{rpn ...}|text [...]]

Completions are shown immediately (without invoking gri-complete again) if the completions window is already displayed or if there are 3 possibilities or less. In this case they are displayed in the minibuffer.

Note: The ``*completions*`' window is deleted after a command is fully completed. ``gri-complete`' uses its own ``*completions*`' buffer, which is not displayed in the buffer-list to avoid clutter.