From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>, 25441-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25441: 26.0.50; Can't autocomplete symbol names ending in ?
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:29:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a11755db-67e0-41fa-8417-58e757f16fb9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkRu_0MH-AUffg+c6xixr2ph-fK1bTvX+bJprzD064GuJg@mail.gmail.com>
> I've just found that the Emacs manual documents this behavior
> (? prints a list of possible completions).
Yes. It's a really dumb design, IMHO. I've argued for years
now that characters such as SPC and ? and C-j (newline) should
be self-inserting during completion.
After several decades, SPC was finally made self-inserting for
file-name completion (only). Progress is slow...
Completion - ESPECIALLY `completing-read' as opposed to
`read-file-name' - is completely _general_. There should be
no assumption that completion candidates do not contain spaces
or question marks or newline chars. That's just silly (IMHO).
And making users use `C-q' to insert a space char is akin to
medieval torture - because it is completely unnecessary.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-14 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-13 18:02 bug#25441: 26.0.50; Can't autocomplete symbol names ending in ? Philipp Stephani
2017-01-13 18:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-01-14 18:07 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-01-14 19:16 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-01-14 21:29 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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