From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering filenames with spaces Date: 13 Aug 2005 17:14:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <32E7C771-B946-491E-ACA1-B95F36FAF8D4@gmail.com> <85oe82w8bj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8564u9u3mo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123968481 9160 80.91.229.2 (13 Aug 2005 21:28:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 13 23:27:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E43XA-00073Y-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E43aS-0005tn-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:30:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E43Xc-0005KB-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:27:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E43XJ-0005D5-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E43XH-00058L-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.245.121.138] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E43ZR-0005xo-US; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1E43KO-0003Wh-Ud; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:14:04 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <8564u9u3mo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:42008 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42008 David Kastrup writes: > Please note that TAB is perfectly common for completion. ok, noted. > I don't think that our main priority for keybindings should be to > annoy people into reading the manual. Even though the traditional > backspace (= C-h) binding on ttys did pretty much that, it was never > really a big selling point for Emacs. right. we want to annoy them later, once they discover elisp and posit some crazy feature like minibuffer-complete-word (bound to SPC), into rereading these archives! ok, i've done my part. btw, looks like there won't be 20 followups, after all; rms has decided to make the change. thi