From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to create a directory containing spaces in dired-mode? Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:34:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371818092 5151 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2013 12:34:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:34:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 21 14:34:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq0YF-0000Ax-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:34:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq0YF-0000XL-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq0Y4-0000XD-TW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq0Y3-0005bK-SU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:34:40 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq0Y3-0005bA-K4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq0Y2-0008J6-2k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:34:38 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-149-114.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.149.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:34:38 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-149-114.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:34:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-149-114.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6tB5b9VEOwwtLcO0urLJGv7QA/4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91631 Archived-At: > @Peter: indeed, with emacs -Q it works. So this could be related to > dired+ / ido-mode (probably the latter) ... I would have to > 'minimalize' it to be sure Historically, Emacs has used the SPC to perform completion in the minibuffer (similar to TAB, tho subtly different). This was changed somewhere around Emacs-22/23 so SPC is "normal" when entering file names (but still performs completion for most/all other minibuffer entries where completion can be used). Apparently, the same change was not applied to the IDO code. As for why SPC is used for completion? In the Unix world, SPC is/was used as a separator, rarely/never within a name, so SPC in filenames under Unix is/was traditionally rare. Stefan