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From: "Alexandre Oberlin" <email_through@migo.info>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: How to disable fancy completion in minibuffer ?
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 14:21:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wwnwlrjahcorn8@all-pc> (raw)

Hi all,

Like most today's software, emacs now may force the fancy refinements that  
its developers imagine or reproduce onto the average user that does not  
care a hoot for them and has no desire to change his habits. I already had  
such problems with tramp mode etc.

The difference with many other software programs is that I know that even  
if emacs now puts its smarties by default like the others, I should at  
least be able to get rid of it. However it is not always that easy.

I have been enduring the new smart minibuffer completion for a while and  
now I just won't take it any more. The recent versions of emacs complete  
the minibuffer strings in a way that is just not for me. If I type a "z"  
as first character, I want the "zap" or "zen" completion choice, not  
"buzz" nor "paz". If there is no completion beginning with z, I want  
nothing. Period.

I tried dynamic-completion-mode with no avail.

Hints ?

Alexandre






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Alexandre Oberlin
http://www.migo.info

In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble.
                 Alan Perlis


             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-06 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-06 12:21 Alexandre Oberlin [this message]
2013-05-06 12:50 ` How to disable fancy completion in minibuffer ? Damien Wyart
2013-05-06 13:16   ` Damien Wyart
2013-05-08 12:42     ` Alexandre Oberlin
2013-05-08 19:18       ` [SOLVED] " Alexandre Oberlin
2013-05-10  9:13         ` Damien Wyart
2013-05-10 16:22           ` Le Wang
2013-05-11 13:19           ` Alexandre Oberlin
     [not found]           ` <mailman.25479.1368202951.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-05-24 13:06             ` Alexandre Oberlin

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