From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to create a directory containing spaces in dired-mode? Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9570d7f5-f408-49d2-af5f-41e8f07ce965@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371827191 9138 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2013 15:06:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:06:31 +0000 (UTC) To: Stefan Monnier , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 21 17:06:28 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 1Uq2uy-0000i8-7x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:06:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq2ux-0007Rf-JR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq2ul-0007PF-PV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq2uk-0007H0-Ol for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:23681) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq2uk-0007Gw-G6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r5LExtCh014012 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:59:55 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5LF6Ahx023199 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:06:12 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt102.oracle.com (abhmt102.oracle.com [141.146.116.54]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5LF6AC2003596; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:06:10 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6668.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:91637 Archived-At: > 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.