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From: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
To: 34622@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34622: Find file prompt should indicate sole completion by appending a blank
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 05:40:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1hrijt4.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)

With emacs, one can never be sure if the expansion
Find file or URL: ~/bin/wwzz
is the sole completion or not, without needing a second TAB press to get
"[Sole completion]" shown.

With bash, there is always a space added at end,
"$ wc ~/bin/wwzz "
so we know right away.

I propose that emacs do the same:
"Find file or URL: ~/bin/wwzz "
and if they really want to enter a file with a " " at the end, well they
could use C-q (quoted-insert).

See also https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Minibuffer-Completion.html
but I am specifically talking about C-x C-f (find-file) and C-x d
(dired). Sorry we did discuss this before...





             reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-22 21:40 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson [this message]
2019-02-23  7:36 ` bug#34622: Find file prompt should indicate sole completion by appending a blank Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-24  4:36   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-02-24 16:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27  5:20       ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-02-27 15:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-16  3:13 ` Stefan Kangas

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