From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer? Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:24:13 +0100 Message-ID: <43953C9D.3090601@student.lu.se> References: <4394DED5.2070500@student.lu.se> <87u0dn9evz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zmnf7y62.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133854684 18429 80.91.229.2 (6 Dec 2005 07:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 07:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 08:38:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjXNZ-0000AJ-78 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:36:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjXNh-0006Av-4H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:36:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjXBr-0003wU-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:24:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjXBn-0003vu-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:24:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjXBn-0003vp-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EjXCQ-0006Yp-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 4394B8720000E700; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 08:24:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87zmnf7y62.fsf@jurta.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47036 Archived-At: 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.