From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
To: Development of Aquamacs Emacs <aquamacs-devel@aquamacs.org>
Cc: emacs- devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: C-x C-f, Tab (in)completion and visiting the wrong, new files
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:52:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82E0660A-D6FB-4EDD-B44D-D4F96E175972@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACMEGHCBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
On 12 Aug 2007, at 19:22, Drew Adams wrote:
>> I've got several files in my directory:
>> foo.tex foo.aux foo.pdf foo.1.tex bar.txt
>>
>> I do: C-x C-f fo <TAB> <RET>
>>
>> What happens then is that only "foo." is in the minibuffer, and a
>> buffer visiting the non-existant file of that name is visited.
>
> I disagree with your proposal, David. Being able to use lax
> completion, for
> file names and for other things, is very useful. I would not want
> to see
> that behavior changed.
My proposal was not to change completion. My proposal was to not
accept a RET after an incomplete completion. (But a RET RET after an
incomplete completion would do exactly what the RET does.)
Where do you think is incomplete completion and entering of the
incomplete string useful?
> However, what I think should happen in the case you mention, and what
> happens by default in Icicles, is that TAB immediately displays
> *Completions*, which lets you know that completion is incomplete
> and lets
> you see the matching candidate names of the existing files.
I like the current behavior - simply because you know what files are
there (or what you want) anyways. No need to see *Completions*.
> But in neither case (nil or non-nil) is lax completion foregone and
> strict
> completion imposed. I would not want C-x C-f to assume that you
> want to
> visit an existing file.
Again, that's not what I said. I said that only if completion is
used, we assume (temporarily) that an existing file is to be visited.
If the user completes the file name manually, then that is fine and
it can be a new file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 6:17 C-x C-f, Tab (in)completion and visiting the wrong, new files David Reitter
2007-08-12 10:40 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-08-12 17:27 ` David Reitter
2007-08-12 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-12 20:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-12 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-12 18:52 ` David Reitter [this message]
2007-08-12 20:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-12 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-12 20:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-12 20:39 ` David Reitter
2007-08-12 21:48 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-13 17:10 ` Davis Herring
2007-08-13 17:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-13 17:52 ` David Reitter
2007-08-13 18:14 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-13 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-13 18:46 ` David Reitter
2007-08-13 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-13 20:15 ` Drew Adams
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