From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:52:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmnf7y62.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u0dn9evz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:46:08 -0500")
>>> Is there any reason not to bind TAB to `lisp-complete-symbol' for the
>>> "Eval:" prompt in minibuffer? It is bound to
>>> indent-for-tab-command' now.
>>
>> TAB in the minibuffer normally is used to complete the whole contents
>> of the minibuffer, but the "Eval:" minibuffer can contain arbitrary
>> expressions. What you want is already available via M-TAB in the
>> minibuffer.
>
> What's the point of indenting lisp expressions in the minibuffer?
Indenting Lisp expressions in the minibuffer is useless. OTOH, binding TAB
to `lisp-complete-symbol' is redundant and also not quite a natural to type
inside Lisp expressions in the minibuffer.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-06 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-06 0:44 TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer? Lennart Borgman
2005-12-06 0:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-06 1:46 ` Chong Yidong
2005-12-06 1:52 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-12-06 7:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-06 21:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-06 22:58 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-12-07 7:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-07 17:09 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-07 20:55 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-12-08 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-08 7:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-07 22:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-07 23:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-08 0:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-08 19:28 ` Richard M. Stallman
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