From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer? Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:52:37 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zmnf7y62.fsf@jurta.org> References: <4394DED5.2070500@student.lu.se> <87u0dn9evz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133837640 7184 80.91.229.2 (6 Dec 2005 02:54:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 02:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 03:53:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjSvp-000276-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:51:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjSvy-0003ow-U9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:52:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjSvJ-0003dD-Gv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:51:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EjSvH-0003cQ-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:51:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjSvH-0003cM-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:51:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EjSvs-0004Rj-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:51:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-34-231-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.231]) by Relayhost1.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99528209E; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 04:51:22 +0200 (EET) Original-To: Chong Yidong In-Reply-To: <87u0dn9evz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:46:08 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee 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:47034 Archived-At: >>> Is there any reason not to bind TAB to `lisp-complete-symbol' for the >>> "Eval:" prompt in minibuffer? It is bound to >>> indent-for-tab-command' now. >> >> TAB in the minibuffer normally is used to complete the whole contents >> of the minibuffer, but the "Eval:" minibuffer can contain arbitrary >> expressions. What you want is already available via M-TAB in the >> minibuffer. > > What's the point of indenting lisp expressions in the minibuffer? Indenting Lisp expressions in the minibuffer is useless. OTOH, binding TAB to `lisp-complete-symbol' is redundant and also not quite a natural to type inside Lisp expressions in the minibuffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/