From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:04:28 +0100 Message-ID: <47D96CAC.4050607@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205431622 20260 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 18:07:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs- devel To: paul r Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 19:07:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZrnm-0005fM-D1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:05:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZrnD-0007zh-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZrnA-0007zU-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZrn7-0007z7-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZrn7-0007z4-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZrn6-0005KO-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:60531 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JZrn5-0004ej-7b; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:04:31 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080313-0, 2008-03-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JZrn5-0004ej-7b. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JZrn5-0004ej-7b 5d49b5bb2e666a91c91fb61b215bc0c1 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92425 Archived-At: paul r wrote: > Hello, > > Emacs seems to have a consistent behaviour regarding TAB and > completion, i.e : Almost everywhere, TAB triggers completion when : > - indentation does not make sens > - tabulation char is unlikely to make sens > > For exemple, TAB triggers completion in find-file. I think TAB should > be bound to lisp-complete-symbol in M-x eval-expression, aka M-: . > > Hope everybody agree and this will be widely considered as a simple > yet positive change. At least I agree, I even have this in my .emacs (define-key read-expression-map (kbd "TAB") #'lisp-complete-symbol)