From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>,
andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at,
Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: select yank via completion
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:00:13 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3341c426-3a86-4ef0-a0ca-9102191a925b@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d009iykt.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
> There is still a small problem:
> sometimes it's handy to slightly edit a previous string
> from kill-ring before inserting it. But with completing-read
> it's not easy to insert the space character, e.g. after 'M-p'
> while editing, typing 'SPC' errors with "[No matches]"
> and doesn't insert a space character.
>
> Could you recommend a more lightweight version of
> completing-read that doesn't override the 'SPC' key?
It's _always_ handy to be able to edit a kill-ring entry
before inserting it into the minibuffer.
It's high time that `completing-read' stop using `SPC' for
word completion. `SPC' should be self-inserting (and the
same for `?').
There's no reason nowadays (and there was never a good
reason) to expect that completion candidates will not
include space chars.
Dunno why this is such a tooth-pull. It took decades to
even get `SPC' to be self-inserting for `read-file-name'.
I raised the same issue for `completing-read' at that time
(and before then).
Word completion? How much is it actually relevant now?
In any case, it's easy to allow for it. Icicles uses
`M-SPC' for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-19 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 17:42 on helm substantial differences Drew Adams
2020-11-13 21:16 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-15 11:49 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-15 20:07 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-15 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-15 22:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16 8:58 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 20:38 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 21:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-17 19:18 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-17 20:32 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-18 9:10 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-18 11:38 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-11-18 19:13 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-18 20:33 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-20 9:24 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-20 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-20 12:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-20 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-21 20:18 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-22 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-22 8:36 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-22 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-22 20:11 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-23 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-25 9:10 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-25 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-25 19:16 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-25 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-25 20:35 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-26 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 8:45 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-27 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 9:17 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-17 21:14 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-18 9:03 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-18 19:21 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-18 22:04 ` select yank via completion Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 23:02 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-19 7:54 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-19 17:00 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-11-20 8:53 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-20 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-21 19:38 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-21 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-21 20:43 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-20 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-21 19:42 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-21 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-21 22:21 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-21 22:48 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-21 23:00 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-25 19:25 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-25 19:40 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-21 21:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-21 21:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-24 22:59 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-11-25 7:36 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-25 8:14 ` Andrii Kolomoiets
2020-11-25 20:24 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-26 8:46 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-11-26 9:26 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-26 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-26 21:17 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-11-27 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 9:01 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-18 22:36 ` on helm substantial differences Drew Adams
2020-11-16 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 20:41 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-16 21:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-16 22:13 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-17 0:04 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-17 8:38 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-17 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-17 12:06 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-11-17 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-17 19:23 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-17 3:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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