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: 12 Aug 2005 20:55:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <32E7C771-B946-491E-ACA1-B95F36FAF8D4@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123894860 24603 80.91.229.2 (13 Aug 2005 01:01:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 13 03:00:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3kNn-0004PI-EM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 03:00:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3kR2-0001w3-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:03:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3kQg-0001uU-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3kQb-0001oZ-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3kQZ-0001kr-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:03:11 -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 1E3kXh-0005aa-Nb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1E3kIf-0005AN-Fm; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:55:01 -0400 Original-To: David Reitter In-Reply-To: <32E7C771-B946-491E-ACA1-B95F36FAF8D4@gmail.com> Original-Lines: 13 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:41984 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41984 David Reitter writes: > I respectfully agree for the UI reasons I mentioned before. Why not > map 'x' to the completion function? After all, only a few file names > have an 'x' in them! traditionally, spaces in filenames break lots of unixoid tools, and were thus generally shunned (finicky quoters excepted). thus, any argument based on favoring the many at the expense of the few will work both for and against keeping the default binding, depending on the particulars of the sampled demographic. beware: that's what politicians do! thi