Re: Ido for saving files or similar?

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

Hi Stefan,

>> Hey, that's nice.  `minibuffer-force-complete' should be bound in
>> `minibuffer-local-completion-map', right?
>
> Yes.  I personally bind it to M-TAB.

That's what I did.  Copyist! ;-)

>> Is it normal, that icomplete doesn't show completions for files?
>> Here, it works for the `describe-function', `describe-variable', and
>> for buffer switching, but for not for `find-file' and friends.
>
> Kind of.  Please report it as a bug.

I'll do.

> In the mean time, you can add read-file-name-internal to
> icomplete-with-completion-tables.

Works perfect.

,----[ C-h v icomplete-with-completion-tables RET ]
| icomplete-with-completion-tables is a variable defined in `icomplete.el'.
| Its value is 
| (read-file-name-internal internal-complete-buffer)
| 
| Documentation:
| Specialized completion tables with which icomplete should operate.
| 
| Icomplete does not operate with any specialized completion tables
| except those on this list.
`----

But why does it complete functions and variables, too?  The last
paragraph seems to contradict this behavior.

Bye,
Tassilo