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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Insufficient documentation on *how* to change SPC behaviour inminibuffer
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:26:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICMEODDNAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uk5td8l63.fsf@gmail.com>

> > I added this text to the above entry:
> >
> >     If you want the old behavior back, put these two key
> >     bindings to your ~/.emacs init file:
> >
> >       (define-key minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map
> > 		  " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
> >       (define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map
> > 		  " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
> >
> > Does it give you enough information now?  Did the recipe work for you?
>
> Many thanks.  It does work as suggested with the above code snippet.
> As for the documentation, well yes that would make sense.  But would
> it be also useful to put it under Emacs-Minibuffer-Completion Commands
> section in the info manual?
>
> Similar to the way, how Emacs recognises sentences (2 spaces vs
> 1aftera period) and how the manual explains how to switch from one to
> the other, I think, there should be a similar explanation in the main
> info manual.

Rather than pepper the manual with this kind of thing, I'd rather see all
such ways to obtain previous-release behavior documented in a single place.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-06 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-05 18:23 Insufficient documentation on *how* to change SPC behaviour in minibuffer Sivaram Neelakantan
2007-07-06 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-06 18:03   ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2007-07-06 18:26     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-07-07  9:48       ` Insufficient documentation on *how* to change SPC behaviour inminibuffer Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-07 12:37         ` Insufficient documentation on *how* to change SPC behaviourinminibuffer Drew Adams
2007-07-07 20:47         ` Insufficient documentation on *how* to change SPC behaviour inminibuffer Richard Stallman
2007-07-07  9:46     ` Insufficient documentation on *how* to change SPC behaviour in minibuffer Eli Zaretskii

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