Re: Completion with M-Tab for custom type 'directory

[Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@telia.com>]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> Henrik Enberg wrote:
>
>>Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
>>
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>>>Does this work? On w32 I can of course not do M-Tab, but I have another
>>>meta-key to, but that does not seem to work.
>>>    
>>>
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>>Doesn't ESC-Tab work on windows?
>>  
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> Yes, but I saw some strange things. First I got into that "show initial
> lisp value" state. Then I did not do that any more, but I really do not
> understand why. I start with (customize-option 'my-opt).
>
> Then, in the correct state, I put the point  to the beginning of the
> field. If I then type Esc Tab I get an "Wrong type argument: stringp,
> nil".

Hmm, I get a huge list of symbols to complete against. Even at the
beginning of the field without deleting the initial "nil".

> After moving the point a bit to the right I actually have completion
> working.  But, ...
>
> 1) If there are spaces in the directory name it stops working.

> 2) I can not click with the right button to select from the list. I have
>    set w32-num-buttons to 2. Should not the right button then be
>    mouse-2?

I don't know about windows, but on Unix-likes, the right button would
most probably be button 3.  With a 2 button mouse, you'd either have to
hit both buttons (or the scroll wheel if one exists) to get mouse-2.

> 3) I can not select with RET in the selection list (because viper is
>    active in the completion buffer).

This sounds probably a viper problem.  I don't think it's a good idea to
rebind standard keys in emacs just to get viper working.  Possibly
viper.el should override keys that gets in the way.