I find this Tab completion annoying as well, particularly because Space has "always" been the emacs file completion character - at least in the 25+ years that I've been using emacs.
Somewhere along the way, someone must have decided that Tab would be "better"; there is certainly a way to "fix" this, but I haven't tried to find it. ET On 4/27/07 10:08 AM, "Roussanka Loukanova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
