From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Entering filenames with spaces
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:34:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bm8pps8.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICOEGLCOAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:34:44 -0800")
> It's true that function names and variable names are normally
> spaceless, but that's not true for buffer names, menu items, or
> names in general. Completion is about completing input by matching
> it against _strings_ (including symbol names). The completion
> mechanism is perfectly general, and it could be argued that it
> should treat all strings equally. That is, all printable chars
> should be self-insertable. I argued this for `?' previously, but
> that was rejected.
I think you are right. This is not strictly filename specific.
Spaces and question marks can occur in non-file completion strings
including buffer names, Info index items, function names.
And these characters used for completion are not user-friendly:
just imagine an Emacs novice trying to find an Info index starting
with `?'.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-07 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-08 11:22 Entering filenames with spaces David Reitter
2005-08-12 7:51 ` James Cloos
2005-08-12 9:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-12 10:26 ` James Cloos
2005-08-12 13:13 ` David Reitter
2005-08-12 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-12 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-08-12 15:58 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-12 16:26 ` David Reitter
2005-08-12 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-12 19:28 ` David Reitter
2005-08-12 21:47 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-13 0:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-13 8:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-13 16:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-13 17:51 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-13 21:14 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-13 12:11 ` James Cloos
2005-08-12 19:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-12 19:51 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-12 20:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-13 6:11 ` Juri Linkov
2005-08-13 14:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-14 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-14 6:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-14 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-15 7:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-08-15 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-14 21:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-15 17:42 ` David Reitter
2005-10-17 4:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-18 9:26 ` David Reitter
2005-10-18 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-18 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-19 2:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-05 15:02 ` David Reitter
2005-11-05 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-06 16:15 ` David Reitter
2005-11-06 17:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-07 1:48 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-07 14:34 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-11-07 21:56 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-07 15:34 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 11:18 ` David Reitter
2005-11-14 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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