Re: C-x C-f, Tab (in)completion and visiting the wrong, new files

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> But if the same happens to others as well, perhaps a more general
>>> change could make Emacs more convenient in this respect.
>> find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file
> Could be done, but I don't think adding another confirmation step for new
> files (that are intended to be created) is as good as making the right
> guess when the user uses completion and confirms an incomplete
> (i.e. ambiguous) choice.

That's very interesting: I added the find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file
pretty for the exact reason you describe, and what you propose is
a refinement of it: to only do the "confirm" step if the previous command
was a completion command.  That makes a lot of sense: it may even be enabled
by default without provoking angry reactions, contrary to
find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file.  It could just be confirgured with a new
value `only-after-completion' for find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file.

> This case may even be universal to all completion-based minibuffer inputs.

Could be.


        Stefan