How can I set a different key binding to minibuffer?

How can I set a different key binding to minibuffer?

[Wang Yin]

Hi,

I'm trying to bind a function named my-indent-or-complete to TAB.


(defun my-indent-or-complete ()
  "hippie-expand, if we are at word boundary, indent otherwise"
  (interactive)
  (if (looking-at "\\>")
      (hippie-expand nil)
    (indent-for-tab-command)
    ))

(global-set-key [(tab)] 'my-indent-or-complete)

(setq hippie-expand-try-functions-list 
      '(try-expand-dabbrev-visible
	try-expand-dabbrev
	try-expand-dabbrev-all-buffers
	try-expand-dabbrev-from-kill
	try-complete-file-name-partially
	try-complete-file-name
	try-expand-all-abbrevs
	try-expand-list
	try-expand-line
	try-complete-lisp-symbol-partially
	try-complete-lisp-symbol))

But when I partially typed a M-x commands in my minibuffer, I want to
TAB to complete it. But TAB is hippie-expand'ing! I want no expand in
my minibuffer. How can I do that?

Can I have a different key binding in the minibuffer? How do I set it?
Or can I have a different local variable
hippie-expand-try-functions-list in my minibuffer?

Thanks.

-- 
Wang Yin
DA Lab, Tsinghua University,
100084
Beijing China

Re: How can I set a different key binding to minibuffer?

[Joakim Hove]

Wang Yin <wang-y01@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> writes:


> Can I have a different key binding in the minibuffer? How do I set it?
> Or can I have a different local variable
> hippie-expand-try-functions-list in my minibuffer?

Try:

(define-key 'minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'minibuffer-complete)

 [There are some other minibuffer maps as well:

    M-x apropos ^minibuffer.*map 

  you might have to define keys for them as well?]

Joakim

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Re: How can I set a different key binding to minibuffer?

[wang yin]

I set this key in the minibuffer. But this scheme just can't work
properly.

M-x loa TAB 

in the minibuffer will be expand into "load-path". Which is not what I
wanted.

I'm not good at elisp. Can you give a conditional clause that can only
change keybinds in buffers other than the minibuffer?

Thanks.

-- 
Wang Yin
DA Lab, Tsinghua University,
100084
Beijing China

Re: How can I set a different key binding to minibuffer?

[Kai Großjohann]

Wang Yin <wang-y01@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> writes:

> (global-set-key [(tab)] 'my-indent-or-complete)

(global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'my-indent-or-complete)

I should really write some boilerplate text that explains about
Emacs' pseudo function keys...
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Re: How can I set a different key binding to minibuffer?

[Kevin Rodgers]

wang yin wrote:

> I set this key in the minibuffer. But this scheme just can't work
> properly.
> 
> M-x loa TAB 
> 
> in the minibuffer will be expand into "load-path". Which is not what I
> wanted.
> 
> I'm not good at elisp. Can you give a conditional clause that can only
> change keybinds in buffers other than the minibuffer?

The minibuffer has its own keymaps (M-x apropos RET minibuffer.*map RET),

so defining a key that's already bound in the minibuffer in the global keymap
shouldn't affect the minibuffer.

If you want to change a key's behavior in the minibuffer, rebind it in the
relevant minibuffer keymaps.

-- 
<a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>