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From: "Thouis (Ray) Jones" <thouis@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: how to make find-file treat space/dashes like any other character?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 10:58:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHGWWxFaBZoxw2z=WV1wm_6-qTVOrvGKU4mgpAJxMJ=8Vpmvsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Is there an easy way to configure find-file and its ilk to treat spaces &
dashes like any other character in file completion?

If I have three files in a directory with names:
abc 123.txt
abc-123.txt
abc_123.txt

Completing filenames from "abc" in find-file will preferentially choose the
first, then the second, then the last.  I'd like for it to treat each of
these the same (stopping at "abc" and prompting with a list of completions).

It looks like this might be hard-coded in completion--try-word-completion,
and I've started to try to write defadvice for this function, but am hoping
there is an easier way.

Thanks,
Thouis Jones


             reply	other threads:[~2019-05-30 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-30 14:58 Thouis (Ray) Jones [this message]
2019-05-30 17:36 ` how to make find-file treat space/dashes like any other character? Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs

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