From: Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: Ingemar Holmgren <dag.h@hotmail.se>
Subject: Re: how to make find-file treat space/dashes like any other character?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 19:36:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86woi73kvw.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAHGWWxFaBZoxw2z=WV1wm_6-qTVOrvGKU4mgpAJxMJ=8Vpmvsg@mail.gmail.com
Thouis (Ray) Jones wrote:
> Is there an easy way to configure find-file
> and its ilk to treat spaces & dashes like any
> other character in file completion?
>
> If I have three files in a directory with names:
> abc 123.txt
> abc-123.txt
> abc_123.txt
UAAAH!
Spaces in filenames are strictly forbidden! [1]
Dashes are the way to go. Even more so, it is
the-way-to-go!
Underscores are the_way_to_go when there is
a tradition behind it, e.g.
the C programming language.
> Completing filenames from "abc" in find-file
> will preferentially choose the first, then
> the second, then the last. I'd like for it to
> treat each of these the same (stopping at
> "abc" and prompting with a list of
> completions).
I just set up a test directory and touch(1)ed
3 files with the exact same filenames you
mention. Then I did `find-file', wrote "abc",
and when I hit TAB, I got a list of
completions, including all three files, just
as expected.
I wonder why you don't? :O
[1] RFC Emanuel Berg
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2019-05-30 14:58 how to make find-file treat space/dashes like any other character? Thouis (Ray) Jones
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