SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

[Viktor Haag]

It appears that the 22.x maintainers have decided that letting the SPC
key complete filenames in the minibuffer is a bad idea, so they no
longer bind it to minibuffer-complete-word whn entering a filename into
the minibuffer.

After years and years of having my fingers trained to do this, I would
really like to switch back to the old way of doing things: in my world,
spaces in file and directory names happen /way/ less often than wanting
to use the SPC key for word completion when entering filenames.


Can anyone give advice on how to go re-invent the old behaviour given
the new changes that have been made to the way the minibuffer works now
(apparently a couple new keymaps have been created around this issue?
I'm not very familiar with how keymaps work, I'm afraid...)?

If anyone can help it would really save me some time and hassle --
thanks!


--
Viktor Haag

Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

[Romain Francoise]

"Viktor Haag" <viktor.haag@gmail.com> writes:

> If anyone can help it would really save me some time and hassle --
> thanks!

This is documented in the Emacs FAQ (C-h C-f).

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Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

[Viktor Haag]

Thanks -- I had a brief look, but didn't see it. And there it is, right
in front of my face.

::sigh::


v.

Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

[Jim Smith]

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

> "Viktor Haag" <viktor.haag@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If anyone can help it would really save me some time and hassle --
>> thanks!
>
> This is documented in the Emacs FAQ (C-h C-f).

Where in the FAQ is this?  I can't seem to find it.

Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

[Johan Bockgård]

Jim Smith <3.141592six@gmail.com> writes:

> Where in the FAQ is this?  I can't seem to find it.

(info "(efaq)SPC no longer completes file names")

-- 
Johan Bockgård

Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

[Romain Francoise]

Jim Smith <3.141592six@gmail.com> writes:

> Where in the FAQ is this?  I can't seem to find it.

| 10.19 Why doesn't SPC complete file names anymore?
| ==================================================
| 
| Starting with Emacs 22.1, `SPC' no longer completes file names in the
| minibuffer, so that file names with embedded spaces could be typed
| without the need to quote the spaces.
| 
|    You can get the old behavior by binding `SPC' to
| `minibuffer-complete-word' in the minibuffer, as follows:
| 
|      (define-key minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map (kbd "SPC")
|        'minibuffer-complete-word)
| 
|      (define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map (kbd "SPC")
|        'minibuffer-complete-word)

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it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.com/ | sea! The blue, the fresh, the
                                        | ever free! --Bryan W. Procter

Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

[drobinow]

This is what I've got:
      ;; restore natural meaning of SPC in minibuffer to revert goofy
change
      (define-key minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map " "
'minibuffer-complete-word)
      (define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map " "
'minibuffer-complete-word)

Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Viktor Haag" <viktor.haag@gmail.com>
> Date: 23 Mar 2006 06:00:48 -0800
> 
> It appears that the 22.x maintainers have decided that letting the SPC
> key complete filenames in the minibuffer is a bad idea, so they no
> longer bind it to minibuffer-complete-word whn entering a filename into
> the minibuffer.

Yes, because more and more people and systems are using file names
with embedded spaces.

> Can anyone give advice on how to go re-invent the old behaviour given
> the new changes that have been made to the way the minibuffer works now
> (apparently a couple new keymaps have been created around this issue?
> I'm not very familiar with how keymaps work, I'm afraid...)?
> 
> If anyone can help it would really save me some time and hassle --
> thanks!

Please read the NEWS file (search for "SPC"), it explains how to do
that.