From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
"16528@debbugs.gnu.org" <16528@debbugs.gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#16528: [External] : bug#16528: 24.3; too many keybindings in minibuffer-local-completion-map
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:11:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488FDAD41A5731F3B2E0C33F3C19@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6lbhp3a.fsf@gmail.com>
> I don't know about good arguments, but FWIW on AZERTY, where '-' is a
> pain to reach for, I enjoy 'SPC' doing word completion and inserting
> hyphens for Elisp symbols on M-x, C-h v, C-h f, etc.
FWIW, Icicles has (always has had) an option for which
keys to use for word-completion. The default value is
`M-SPC'.
`icicle-word-completion-keys':
...because the spacebar is such a convenient key to
hit, other people prefer to use `SPC' for word
completion, and to insert a space some other way.
The usual way to do that is via `C-q SPC', but command
`icicle-insert-a-space' is provided for convenience.
You can bind this to `M-SPC', for instance, in
`minibuffer-local-completion-map',
`minibuffer-local-completion-map', and
`minibuffer-local-must-match-map'.
And if Emacs thought that word-completion for AZERTY
keyboards (or anything else) would likely result in
a significant number of users wanting to customize the
key(s) to use for it, Emacs too could offer an option.
Or else users such as yourself would just add a
binding for SPC in the relevant minibuffer keymaps.
> I'll admit it's a pretty niche use-case, although off the top of my
> head, I can't find much uses for self-inserting SPC/?/C-j in the
> minibuffer either
Hearing that, I'm guessing your use of minibuffer
completion doesn't encounter a lot of different kinds
of completion candidates. That's fine; users are
different, as are the things they complete.
> (Emacs 28's yank-from-kill-ring comes to mind, but
> '?' and 'SPC' are already self-inserting there[1]).
Individual commands can bind whatever keys in whatever
minibuffer keymaps make most sense for those commands.
But I think the general case, that is, no a priori
knowledge of what kinds of completion candidates might
be used, should treat those 3 keys as self-inserting.
Instead of the commands you mentioned making SPC
self-inserting, commands for which SPC should have
some action _other than_ self-insertion should bind
SPC to that particular action. That's applying
particular use-case knowledge to completion for that
use case.
The normal and generally expected action for SPC is
self-insertion. That makes sense for the minibuffer
also, in general. Any text at all can be a completion
candidate. And a minibuffer is pretty much a general
editing buffer.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-20 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-23 13:06 bug#16528: 24.3; too many keybindings in minibuffer-local-completion-map Roland Winkler
2014-01-23 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 19:02 ` Roland Winkler
2014-01-23 19:16 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-20 15:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-20 16:38 ` bug#16528: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-08-20 19:51 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-08-20 21:11 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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