From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre Oberlin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to disable fancy completion in minibuffer ? Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 14:21:17 +0200 Organization: http://www.migo.info Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367846002 23359 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2013 13:13:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 13:13:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 06 15:13:20 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 1UZLEF-0004xY-9x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 15:13:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49603 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZLEE-0001hl-SO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 09:13:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe22.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Win32) Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 12:21:22 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1743 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198261 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 06 May 2013 09:13:04 -0400 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:90528 Archived-At: 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 -- Alexandre Oberlin http://www.migo.info In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. Alan Perlis