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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 13:27:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DD121D.60000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000601c8873d$7625c240$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com>

Drew Adams wrote:
> I said, "M-TAB or ESC TAB". 

I noticed, but I find ESC TAB quite a bit inconvenient for such a common 
operation as completion.

>> - 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)
> 
> Did you read what I wrote? TAB can be used for some other, better completion
> in M-: than symbol completion - completion that would be consistent with
> other minibuffer completion (complete the whole input, then RET to enter).

Sorry, I missed that part.

Do you mean adding closing parenthesis? Then it could be combined I believe.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-16 12:27 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)
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) [this message]
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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