From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to make find-file treat space/dashes like any other character? Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 19:36:03 +0200 Message-ID: <86woi73kvw.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="202819"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Ingemar Holmgren To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 30 19:36:29 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hWOya-000qbw-EM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2019 19:36:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57196 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hWOyZ-0008L4-GT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2019 13:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hWOyL-0008Ju-A3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2019 13:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hWOyK-0006Ku-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2019 13:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53944 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hWOyJ-0006Gi-7I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2019 13:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hWOyH-000q8U-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2019 19:36:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:UTy1rvPoGv+umzwR9vbERPOFYmo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120704 Archived-At: Thouis (Ray) Jones wrote: > Is there an easy way to configure find-file > and its ilk to treat spaces & dashes like any > other character in file completion? > > If I have three files in a directory with names: > abc 123.txt > abc-123.txt > abc_123.txt UAAAH! Spaces in filenames are strictly forbidden! [1] Dashes are the way to go. Even more so, it is the-way-to-go! Underscores are the_way_to_go when there is a tradition behind it, e.g. the C programming language. > Completing filenames from "abc" in find-file > will preferentially choose the first, then > the second, then the last. I'd like for it to > treat each of these the same (stopping at > "abc" and prompting with a list of > completions). I just set up a test directory and touch(1)ed 3 files with the exact same filenames you mention. Then I did `find-file', wrote "abc", and when I hit TAB, I got a list of completions, including all three files, just as expected. I wonder why you don't? :O [1] RFC Emanuel Berg -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal