From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Entering filenames with spaces
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:26:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5C07BFC0-99EF-4903-906B-14E29C9E3A28@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICCEJMCLAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
On 12 Aug 2005, at 16:58, Drew Adams wrote:
>
> The point is that users are free to get rid of the SPC bindings to
> minibuffer-complete-word. I think that David was saying that he
> never uses
> word completion - in that case, just removing the bindings
> suffices. Those
> who do use it have several options, including the alternatives of
> binding it
> to something else (to use SPC for inserting a space) and binding
> something
> else to a command to insert a space. You could even do it one way for
> file-name completion and the other way 'round for other completion...
I think that would make a lot of sense.
Either way, I want to stress that the default binding of the space
bar should be too insert a space. Think of a new user, or of a user
like me who doesn't use a lot of spaces in file names. Don't pressure
someone into googling for a solution for something as simple as that.
It's not smart from a UI perspective to assign a highly application-
specific function to a commonly used key with a fixed meaning, just
because it's slightly more convenient to a small fraction of users
instead of hitting Tab.
Remove the binding and allow specialist users who know what they are
doing to add the binding with a simple define-key.
For non-filename minibuffers where spaces aren't inserted, I don't care.
By the way, mapping ESC to Meta is a very similar thing. Esc is meant
to let the user "escape" the current situation. But the difference is
that Esc for Meta is a burned-in, long-standing choice that a lot of
people (consoles!) are used to, so there's no way one should change it.
-D
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-12 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-08 11:22 Entering filenames with spaces David Reitter
2005-08-12 7:51 ` James Cloos
2005-08-12 9:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-12 10:26 ` James Cloos
2005-08-12 13:13 ` David Reitter
2005-08-12 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-12 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-08-12 15:58 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-12 16:26 ` David Reitter [this message]
2005-08-12 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-12 19:28 ` David Reitter
2005-08-12 21:47 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-13 0:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-13 8:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-13 16:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-13 17:51 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-13 21:14 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-13 12:11 ` James Cloos
2005-08-12 19:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-12 19:51 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-12 20:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-13 6:11 ` Juri Linkov
2005-08-13 14:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-14 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-14 6:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-14 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-15 7:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-08-15 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-14 21:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-15 17:42 ` David Reitter
2005-10-17 4:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-18 9:26 ` David Reitter
2005-10-18 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-18 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-19 2:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-05 15:02 ` David Reitter
2005-11-05 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-06 16:15 ` David Reitter
2005-11-06 17:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-07 1:48 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-07 14:34 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-07 21:56 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-07 15:34 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 11:18 ` David Reitter
2005-11-14 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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