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From: "paul r" <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Who uses "complete word" (aka SPC) in the minibuffer and how/why
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:58:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e30f0f320803211158i204a1843r5b3d05c1617b0837@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zlt4uas6.fsf@freemail.hu>

> I use it with M-x, especially when I want to run a command that is
>  shadowed by a shorter one, e.g. customize-variable (shadowed by
>  customize) and mail-add-payment-async (shadowed by mail-add-payment).
>  At the end of the common part I hit SPC to get completion of the longer
>  command.
>
>  I could do this with the sequence TAB and '-' too, but that would be one
>  extra keypress.

Same here, and I like it. I find it smart to use for completion a key
that is unlikely to make sens as self-insert. And to be honest, - is a
pain to hit on my keyboard.

-- Paul

PS : Attentive reader may have seen a parallel with Tab for completion
in M-:  ...  :)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-21 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-11 21:13 Who uses "complete word" (aka SPC) in the minibuffer and how/why Stefan Monnier
2008-03-11 22:59 ` Magnus Henoch
2008-03-12  1:37   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-12 18:12     ` Magnus Henoch
2008-03-12 11:29   ` Bastien
2008-03-21 18:39   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-21 18:58   ` paul r [this message]
2008-04-11 20:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-11 23:20       ` Paul Rivier
2008-04-12  5:26         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-12 11:23           ` Paul Rivier
2008-04-13 22:23       ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-12 11:34 ` Bastien

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