From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Juri Linkov' <juri@jurta.org>,
'Chong Yidong' <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
'paul r' <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>,
'emacs- devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:43:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DC5F1B.8070003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003001c886f5$366f4330$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
>>>> I think TAB should be bound to lisp-complete-symbol
>>>> in M-x eval-expression, aka M-: .
>> I think the only problem preventing this change is...
>> When this is fixed, it makes sense to allow TAB to
>> complete a lisp symbol...
>
> Uh, why? What's wrong with M-TAB or ESC TAB for Lisp symbol completion,
> exactly as in a Lisp buffer? If it's good enough for there, and it's always
> been good enough for here (minibuffer) in the past, why change it?
Two things:
- M-TAB does not work when the window manager eats it breakfast
- TAB is rather commonly used for completion (for example when reading
file names in Emacs, in shells, hacks to use TAB for completions in
Emacs are seen as positive by some Emacs users)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-15 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 17:30 Usability suggestion : completion for M-: paul r
2008-03-13 18:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-13 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-13 21:32 ` paul r
2008-03-13 21:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-13 23:32 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-13 23:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-21 5:21 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-14 8:52 ` paul r
2008-03-15 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-15 23:35 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-15 23:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-03-16 8:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 11:00 ` paul r
2008-03-16 11:21 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-03-16 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 12:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-16 8:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 12:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 13:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 10:56 ` paul r
2008-03-16 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 18:42 ` paul r
2008-03-16 19:56 ` Bastien
2008-03-16 20:22 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-03-17 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-17 4:07 ` Mike Mattie
2008-03-17 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-17 9:32 ` paul r
2008-03-17 19:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-18 9:19 ` paul r
2008-03-19 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-19 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-19 18:16 ` paul r
2008-03-19 19:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-16 18:49 ` paul r
2008-03-16 12:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-16 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-16 20:06 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-03-22 21:14 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-23 2:30 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-23 5:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-09 20:42 ` Paul R
2008-04-09 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-10 23:12 ` Juri Linkov
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