From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>, "'Kenichi Handa'" <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: 11182@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11182: 24.0.93; In *shell* buffer, '?' can't be inserted after TAB.
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:43:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1FEF0D23A7E14962BF909AC9B7B7DE2A@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ehs1b3zk.fsf@gnu.org>
> Shouldn't Shell Mode and its derivatives remap that to M-? or some
> such? `?' is too frequent a character in command-line interfaces to
> have it bound to anything other than self-insert-command, IMO. At
> least both Bash and GDB bind that function to M-?, and I think Emacs
> should follow suit.
FWIW - `M-?' is what Icicles uses for (minibuffer) completion help.
I think it's nuts that vanilla Emacs still uses ordinary, printing chars such as
`?' and `newline' for special minibuffer commands, instead of just inserting
them. And even `SPC' outside of (finally!) file names. A user is more likely
to expect `?' to self-insert than to think s?he should use `C-q ?' to insert a
`?'.
Yes, I know you've heard it before... But glad to hear Eli in favor of `M-?'
here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-06 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-05 2:04 bug#11182: 24.0.93; In *shell* buffer, '?' can't be inserted after TAB Kenichi Handa
2012-04-05 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-06 0:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-04-06 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-06 3:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-04-06 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-06 20:43 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-04-07 3:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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