From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: autocomplete idiosyncracies Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:26:33 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87vedy2z0m.fsf@pppc-biostat.mgh.harvard.edu> 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 1181320874 27389 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2007 16:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:41:14 +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 18:41:11 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 1HwhWR-0004At-DG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:41:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwhWQ-0002T5-Vp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:41:11 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1181319996 28323 132.183.29.121 (8 Jun 2007 16:26:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:26:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8a5CCq38uOX51lc6pI9F3XTdJFQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149208 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:44795 Archived-At: Kai Grossjohann writes: > It may work better to use TAB instead of SPC. Definitely: TAB and SPC work differently --- I believe TAB completes just like bash, and SPC completes over breaks in words (dashes). To find the functions and variables related to any concept, do "M-x apropos RET regexp" and it will show you all the documentation it can find. For super-duper filename completion, check out the Icicles package at www.emacswiki.org. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109