From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help: using spaces when I save a new file (C-w) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:35:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83bonv2hza.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332009389 22168 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2012 18:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:36:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 17 19:36:29 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S8yUL-0004A4-CI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:36:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37999 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8yUK-00043T-P9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8yTx-0003Qm-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8yTd-0002kF-PK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:57938) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8yTd-0002k4-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M1100300KNBSM00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:35:39 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.34.45]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M11003HKKZCN1A0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:35:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84035 Archived-At: > From: Jiehong Ma > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:04:01 +0100 > > I have been using GNU/Emacs for a few months now and I'm still annoyed by a > little thing: each time I want to save the buffer in a new file, I hit C-w > but I can't use spaces in the file name since the mini-buffer tries to > complete my name (as TAB does too). However, spaces in filenames are quite > common for me and now most of filesystems deal well with spaces in filename. > > Is there any way to get that working? Yes: upgrade to a newer Emacs version. This was fixed in Emacs 22.1, which was released in June 2007. If you are already using a newer version, you must have something in your .emacs that disables this feature.