From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "paul r" <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs- devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:32:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejaei4iz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e30f0f320803131030oe40a734mf5b5633eadee28e5@mail.gmail.com> (paul r.'s message of "Thu\, 13 Mar 2008 18\:30\:12 +0100")
"paul r" <paul.r.ml@gmail.com> writes:
> Emacs seems to have a consistent behaviour regarding TAB and
> completion, i.e : Almost everywhere, TAB triggers completion when :
> - indentation does not make sens
> - tabulation char is unlikely to make sens
>
> For exemple, TAB triggers completion in find-file. I think TAB should
> be bound to lisp-complete-symbol in M-x eval-expression, aka M-: .
>
> Hope everybody agree and this will be widely considered as a simple
> yet positive change.
ISTR this being discussed on this list at some point in the past, but
don't remember the details.
At first glance, it seems like a definite win to rebind TAB to symbol
completion. Any anyone point out a usage pattern where the old
binding of TAB is preferable?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 23:32 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 [this message]
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)
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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