Re: spacebar completion (warning - off topic)

[Kester Clegg <kester@cs.york.ac.uk>]

David Klein <dklein@bloombergREMOVETHISPART.com> writes:

> Because of this, the mini-buffer almost never needs to have a space in
> it, so the spacebar can be used for completion. Even in emacs this is
> often turned off though, e.g. with `compile' and `grep' where the
> minibuffer can contain spaces. Can you imagine the misery of trying to
> type
> 
> for x in *.f; do echo $x; done
> 
> if every time you hit the spacebar a whole set of completions came up?

Yes, you are right.  Though in truth I rarely type the above, it would
be a PITA the once-in-6-months I did need to!  I forgot emacs might be
applying its completion rules more selectively than I imagined.  :-)


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