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: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:27:09 +0100 Message-ID: <47DD121D.60000@gmail.com> References: <87ejaei4iz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hcf7r7vl.fsf@jurta.org> <003001c886f5$366f4330$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <47DC5F1B.8070003@gmail.com> <000601c8873d$7625c240$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> 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 1205670453 4736 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2008 12:27:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Juri Linkov' , 'Chong Yidong' , 'paul r' , 'emacs- devel' To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 16 13:28:01 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 1Jary3-00044s-MM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:28:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JarxU-0007Wi-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JarxQ-0007WM-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JarxO-0007Vo-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JarxO-0007Vl-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:27:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JarxO-0005c9-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:27:18 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:65167 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JarxJ-0000YM-4M; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:27:13 +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: <000601c8873d$7625c240$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080316-0, 2008-03-16), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JarxJ-0000YM-4M. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JarxJ-0000YM-4M 36eb7f57707baf09e4d2dbdcd4faada6 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:92734 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > I said, "M-TAB or ESC TAB". I noticed, but I find ESC TAB quite a bit inconvenient for such a common operation as completion. >> - TAB is rather commonly used for completion (for example >> when reading file names in Emacs, in shells, hacks to use >> TAB for completions in Emacs are seen as positive by some Emacs users) > > Did you read what I wrote? TAB can be used for some other, better completion > in M-: than symbol completion - completion that would be consistent with > other minibuffer completion (complete the whole input, then RET to enter). Sorry, I missed that part. Do you mean adding closing parenthesis? Then it could be combined I believe.