From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: autocomplete idiosyncracies Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:38:56 +0200 Message-ID: <86hcpizf27.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <1181148570.453597.84420@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181316057 8850 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2007 15:20:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:20:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 17:20:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HwgGb-0002sl-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:20:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwgGa-0005VB-FK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwgGD-0005Rl-Ci for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwgGC-0005QJ-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwgGC-0005Q7-FY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwgGB-0001B6-S3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hwg57-0006i4-3j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:08:53 +0200 Original-Received: from de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net ([62.191.185.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:08:53 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:08:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WgvUym7QsNjEW7JpqNC2dg4pa30= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44792 Archived-At: It may work better to use TAB instead of SPC. Kai xzqx writes: > Has anyone noticed that emacs sometimes behaves differently regarding > autocomplete? For instance, suppose I have a directory containing the > following files: > > blah > blahblah > blah-blah > blah-1 > > If I C-x C-f and navigate to this directory, then hit space ONCE, I > see: > > Find file: ~/etest/blah > > If I hit space again, I see: > > Find file: ~/etest/blah- > > If I hit space again, I see that, plus the completions list: blah-1 > and blah-blah. If I'm not thinking, sometimes I forget that files > called 'blah' and 'blahblah' even could exist. > > Does anyone know if there is a way to tweak this behavior? Many > websearches have come up empty. Thanks in advance, > > Anne