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Subject: Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?
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Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>     > What's the point of indenting lisp expressions in the minibuffer?
> 
>     Indenting Lisp expressions in the minibuffer is useless.
> 
> It is not totally useless, but its usefulness is rather rare.
> However, since completion is not that common, and since it
> is easy enough on M-TAB, I agree we should make no change.

Well, all modern desktops bind M-TAB to window switching, so Emacs
is left with `ESC TAB' only, which is not that easy.

Paul