From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25441: 26.0.50; Can't autocomplete symbol names ending in ? Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:29:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1484429420 8496 195.159.176.226 (14 Jan 2017 21:30:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:30:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Philipp Stephani , 25441-done@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 14 22:30:16 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cSVtn-0000xn-NL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 22:30:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cSVts-0000Im-81 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:30:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cSVtm-0000HG-Md for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cSVtj-0000FQ-JG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:30:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38825) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cSVtj-0000FK-FE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:30:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cSVtj-0007NQ-3L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:30:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:30:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25441 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 25441-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D25441.148442936428282 (code D ref 25441); Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25441-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jan 2017 21:29:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54224 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cSVt5-0007M6-OG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:21813) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cSVt4-0007Lu-BF for 25441-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v0ELTFXQ013644 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:29:16 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v0ELTFET032292 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:29:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0014.oracle.com (abhmp0014.oracle.com [141.146.116.20]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id v0ELTDNC027432; Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:29:14 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:128125 Archived-At: > 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. =C2=A0