From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:24:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43953C9D.3090601@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmnf7y62.fsf@jurta.org>
Juri Linkov wrote:
>>>>Is there any reason not to bind TAB to `lisp-complete-symbol' for the
>>>>"Eval:" prompt in minibuffer? It is bound to
>>>>indent-for-tab-command' now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>TAB in the minibuffer normally is used to complete the whole contents
>>>of the minibuffer, but the "Eval:" minibuffer can contain arbitrary
>>>expressions. What you want is already available via M-TAB in the
>>>minibuffer.
>>>
>>>
>>What's the point of indenting lisp expressions in the minibuffer?
>>
>>
>
>Indenting Lisp expressions in the minibuffer is useless. OTOH, binding TAB
>to `lisp-complete-symbol' is redundant and also not quite a natural to type
>inside Lisp expressions in the minibuffer.
>
My point is of course that I often find myself typing TAB to complete in
the minibuffer even though I know I can use M-TAB. TAB is used to
complete interactive commands and file names. Some part of my brain does
not seem to care that it is another prompt.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-06 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-06 0:44 TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer? Lennart Borgman
2005-12-06 0:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-06 1:46 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-06 1:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-06 7:24 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-12-06 21:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-06 22:58 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-12-07 7:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-07 17:09 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-07 20:55 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-12-08 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-08 7:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-07 22:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-07 23:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-08 0:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-08 19:28 ` Richard M. Stallman
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