From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: find-file completion Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:47:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: <17979178.177971174472503098.JavaMail.www@wwinf4102> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174484951 20378 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2007 13:49:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:49:11 +0000 (UTC) To: "Emacs Dev [emacs-devel]" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 21 14:49:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HU1BS-0002sL-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:48:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HU1D8-0000Tx-De for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:50:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HU1D6-0000Ts-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HU1D3-0000Tc-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HU1D3-0000TZ-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:50:37 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HU1BN-0007LJ-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:48:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l2LDmo0h029727 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:48:50 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l2LDKGBZ015211 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:48:49 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-36.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2549464561174484842; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:47:22 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <17979178.177971174472503098.JavaMail.www@wwinf4102> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68230 Archived-At: > I should have said instead of TAB. With TAB it looks for > path completion. With M-TAB it looks for elisp symbols. There is > no sense I believe to look for elisp symbols in this case... M-TAB should complete to a symbol, IMO. It is quite OK to have / in Lisp symbol names. Perhaps some special mode or library such as ffap might provide an option for M-TAB to interpret possible file names (or URLs or...) instead of symbols, but I think that M-TAB should simply complete symbols, by default.