From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kester Clegg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: spacebar completion (warning - off topic) Date: 02 Jan 2003 14:54:22 +0000 Organization: Rolls Royce UTC, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, UK Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041519664 24029 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 15:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:01:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18U6qD-0006F7-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:01:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18U6mW-0007iA-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:57:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!151.189.0.75.MISMATCH!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!news.york.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc310.cs.york.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: pump1.york.ac.uk 1041519260 4012 144.32.40.101 (2 Jan 2003 14:54:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@york.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jan 2003 14:54:20 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108660 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5189 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5189 David Klein 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. :-) -- ************************************************************************ Kester Clegg Dept. of Computer Science, Research Assistant (UTC) University of York, Tel (01904) 43 27 49 email: kester at cs.york.ac.uk ************************************************************************