From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-: Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:43:23 +0100 Message-ID: <47DC5F1B.8070003@gmail.com> References: <87ejaei4iz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hcf7r7vl.fsf@jurta.org> <003001c886f5$366f4330$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205624638 4084 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2008 23:43:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Juri Linkov' , 'Chong Yidong' , 'paul r' , 'emacs- devel' To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 16 00:44:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jag36-0002Da-Be for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:44:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jag2W-0001MI-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:43:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jag2S-0001Lr-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:43:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jag2S-0001LU-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:43:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jag2R-0001LR-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jag2R-0003EQ-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64225 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jag2M-0006kb-41; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:43:38 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <003001c886f5$366f4330$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080315-0, 2008-03-15), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Jag2M-0006kb-41. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Jag2M-0006kb-41 8ea2a05f7faa3911e48fe627bca961e0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:92708 Archived-At: 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)