From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Damien Wyart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to disable fancy completion in minibuffer ? Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 14:50:06 +0200 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <5187a6ff$0$2054$426a74cc@news.free.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367845998 23319 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2013 13:13:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 13:13:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 06 15:13:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UZLEE-0004xI-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 15:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZLEE-0001h8-AW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 09:13:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-b.proxad.net!nnrp1-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 May 2013 14:50:07 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1367844607 news-3.free.fr 2054 213.41.244.197:59889 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198262 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 06 May 2013 09:13:04 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90527 Archived-At: * "Alexandre Oberlin" in gnu.emacs.help: > [...] > I have been enduring the new smart minibuffer completion for a while > and now I just won't take it any more. The recent versions of emacs > complete the minibuffer strings in a way that is just not for me. If > I type a "z" as first character, I want the "zap" or "zen" completion > choice, not "buzz" nor "paz". If there is no completion beginning with > z, I want nothing. Period. Strange, this looks like you have the substring completion style enabled, which is normally not done by default. Maybe some additional packages have done this for you? Can you use C-h v completion-styles to check? The default value is (basic partial-completion emacs22), and you can read some explanations here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Completion-Styles.html Reverting to the default value should bring you back to what you would like. You might also want to have a look at icicles, which is targeted at customizing and enhancing minibuffer completion: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNewbieWithIcicles -- DW