From: Miguel Guedes <miguel.a.guedes@gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>, "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read does not accept spaces
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:29:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E10B26.5060300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6cf7fbc-dfb6-4824-b623-1bd582d40701@default>
On 16/01/14 18:13, Drew Adams wrote:
<snip>
> No. There is no bug here. This is the behavior by design, like
> it or not.
>
> Do I personally think that `SPC' should generally be self-inserting
> during completion? You bet I do. And so should `?'. And so should
> `C-j' (newline). (And this is the case in Icicle mode, for instance.)
>
> But that is not the opinion of Emacs Dev. It took decades to finally
> get `SPC' to be self-inserting for file-name completion (see variable
> `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map', in the same Elisp manual
> node). Patience. ;-)
>
But would it be fair to say that the command `timeclock-out' shouldn't
be making use of `completing-read' for entering a reason (to clock out)
and thus a bug should be filed?
Many thanks for your replies.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-23 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-16 15:14 Command timeclock-out Miguel Guedes
2014-01-16 17:07 ` completing-read does not accept spaces (was: Command timeclock-out) Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-16 18:13 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-16 18:36 ` completing-read does not accept spaces Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-16 18:50 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-16 19:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 12:29 ` Miguel Guedes [this message]
2014-01-23 14:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-23 17:20 ` Drew Adams
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