From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:32:36 -0400 Message-ID: <87ejaei4iz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205451344 29328 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 23:35:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs- devel To: "paul r" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 14 00:36:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZwy3-0002P6-UK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:36:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwxU-0000pV-QN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:35:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwx1-0000fP-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwww-0000fB-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZwww-0000f8-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZwww-00086q-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 790BF4E3B9; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:32:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (paul r.'s message of "Thu\, 13 Mar 2008 18\:30\:12 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92450 Archived-At: "paul r" writes: > Emacs seems to have a consistent behaviour regarding TAB and > completion, i.e : Almost everywhere, TAB triggers completion when : > - indentation does not make sens > - tabulation char is unlikely to make sens > > For exemple, TAB triggers completion in find-file. I think TAB should > be bound to lisp-complete-symbol in M-x eval-expression, aka M-: . > > Hope everybody agree and this will be widely considered as a simple > yet positive change. ISTR this being discussed on this list at some point in the past, but don't remember the details. At first glance, it seems like a definite win to rebind TAB to symbol completion. Any anyone point out a usage pattern where the old binding of TAB is preferable?