Hi, My reply is not to give any constructive help, but just to comment on what you say :-)
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know that in the Mac OS environment, and in Windows too, and even in > current *ix environments, files are allowed to have spaces in their > names. I don't want to argue about that, and I understand that it is > for that reason that the minibuffer completion character in Carbon > Emacs is Tab rather than Space. But I find it utterly annoying, and > it makes me scream every time space doesn't do what I want it to, The automatic completion via Tab is a feature of Unix family OSs, incl. Linux: this is why we are quite happy that Emacs follows this. If you do not have any other reason for using Space as the completion character, it seems to me that the best is to settle down and attune to Tab: your hands will be protesting, a couple of days, but after that they will be protesting against the Space. (I know the screaming situation by having, now and then, to use a keyboard with Swedish layout of the keys on which all the special characters are re-arranged to peculiar key-combinations.) > which is, complete the filename I've entered to the degree possible. > It's bad enough to try to work in Windows and have to use those silly > quotes around filenames if they have spaces in them, but I'm used to > working *around* Windows. I have a lot more difficulty accepting the > idea of having to work *around* emacs. > > If I knew the name of the keymap to alter, I'd do it. If I knew the > name of the mode in which to do a "local-set-key", I'd do that. If I > could find it in Customize, I'd change it there. I tried to figure out Customize in Emacs, incl by spending time on reading some of the manuals, but like you, I find all of it obscure, or at least, requiring too much time to figure out what-how. > Maybe I'd come to > regret doing it if I had to deal with a lot of files that have spaces > embedded in their names, and if so I could undo the change. > Currently, on the relatively few occasions when I encounter a space in > a filename, I enter it with a C-q. > > So now that I've gone tiresome detail as to why I need to know, can > someone please toss me a clue? > > -jmc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Carbon Emacs" group mailing list. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/carbon-emacs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
