From: Kester Clegg <kester@cs.york.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: spacebar completion (warning - off topic)
Date: 02 Jan 2003 14:54:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yqrvg17li01.fsf@cs.york.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m0ptrfk670.fsf@bloombergREMOVETHISPART.com
David Klein <dklein@bloombergREMOVETHISPART.com> writes:
> Because of this, the mini-buffer almost never needs to have a space in
> it, so the spacebar can be used for completion. Even in emacs this is
> often turned off though, e.g. with `compile' and `grep' where the
> minibuffer can contain spaces. Can you imagine the misery of trying to
> type
>
> for x in *.f; do echo $x; done
>
> if every time you hit the spacebar a whole set of completions came up?
Yes, you are right. Though in truth I rarely type the above, it would
be a PITA the once-in-6-months I did need to! I forgot emacs might be
applying its completion rules more selectively than I imagined. :-)
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Kester Clegg Dept. of Computer Science,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 13:37 spacebar completion (warning - off topic) Kester Clegg
2003-01-02 13:54 ` David Klein
2003-01-02 14:54 ` Kester Clegg [this message]
2003-01-02 19:31 ` Bijan Soleymani
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