From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: How to create a directory containing spaces in dired-mode?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:06:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9570d7f5-f408-49d2-af5f-41e8f07ce965@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr4fvejda.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
> As for why SPC is used for completion? In the Unix world, SPC is/was
> used as a separator, rarely/never within a name, so SPC in filenames
> under Unix is/was traditionally rare.
An additional reason, I think, was that hitting the space bar is convenient.
For the same reason, SPC is used in Info to page forward through a manual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-21 7:07 How to create a directory containing spaces in dired-mode? Marius Hofert
2013-06-21 8:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-21 10:20 ` Vlad Piersec
2013-06-21 10:31 ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-21 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-21 15:06 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2143.1371827179.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-21 15:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-21 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2013-06-21 18:11 ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-21 12:21 ` Tim Visher
2013-06-21 13:42 ` Marius Hofert
[not found] <mailman.2123.1371798504.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-21 12:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-21 13:02 ` notbob
2013-06-21 13:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-21 19:21 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2159.1371842500.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-21 22:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-22 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2207.1371915908.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-22 16:36 ` Emanuel Berg
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