From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 8492@debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Subject: bug#8492: 23.3; Time to use a different binding for completion?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:46:13 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1v0yxvf5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimvrHaMPVKv4vQekWKMyO_=NZJo_w@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:21:10 +0200")
>>>> Is it therefore time to admit defeat and find an alternative binding for
>>>> completion functions, even if it’s an extra binding rather than simply a
>>>> different one?
>>> TAB can do completion if you (setq tab-always-indent 'complete).
>> Thanks for the tip, I'll try that.
> The idea is nice, but there is perhaps a problem with the current
> implementation: There are many ways to complete in Emacs.
It's not the ultimate solution, no. I'm not sure what "other choices"
you're thinking of, but I know that for some major modes, mixing
completion and indentation via (setq tab-always-indent 'complete) is not
really an option (e.g. Python where TAB cycles through various
indentation levels).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-19 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-13 17:26 bug#8492: 23.3; Time to use a different binding for completion? Reuben Thomas
2011-04-15 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-15 22:53 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-15 23:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-19 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-04-19 13:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-19 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-19 18:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-24 18:08 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-24 19:43 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-24 19:55 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-19 10:52 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2011-04-19 12:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-20 11:54 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 13:22 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 14:49 ` Sven Joachim
2011-04-20 16:41 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-20 17:11 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 18:28 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-20 22:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 0:13 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-21 6:02 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-20 22:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-20 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-20 14:07 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 15:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-20 18:28 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 22:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 22:49 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 21:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-20 22:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-20 22:51 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 12:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 14:13 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-21 18:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 19:34 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 19:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 20:14 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 20:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 21:08 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-22 13:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 17:33 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-22 18:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 21:01 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-22 21:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 20:44 ` Sean Sieger
2021-10-21 19:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21 19:45 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-21 20:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 6:30 ` Phil Sainty
2021-10-22 8:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-04-29 12:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 13:22 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-29 13:25 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-29 13:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 15:14 ` Drew Adams
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