On Apr 27, 4:08 am, Roussanka Loukanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
I have been using Emacs in Unix environments for over fifteen years.
I understand that Tab is often used as a completion character in Unix
shells, etc. Emacs even uses Tab, or Esc-Tab, as a completion
character in some contexts. But nowhere else in the Emacs world is
the minibuffer completion key anything but space, at least not in my
experience. Changing this core behavior of Emacs and not providing a
way to restore it to what is, for Emacs, a very stable default state
would be a severe misjudgement. This would make *us* very unhappy
with Carbon Emacs.
> If you do
> not have any other reason for using Space as the completion character,
Other than what, getting used to it for fifteen years? OK, how about
that I am not hermetically sealed in the Mac OX X environment, and the
rest of the Emacs world continues to behave as before? That I don't
need *another* gratuitous incompatibility to adapt to when I shift
from my Mac to my Linux box to my Windows thingie? Space as a
completion char also requires almost *no* hand-movement, there's no
chance of hitting the Caps Lock, Shift, Control, or "`" keys by
mistake. Less of a distraction. But mainly, it's unacceptable to me
to change a core behavior and offer no flexibility to those who don't
want to join this Brave New World.
> 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.
You mean, they'll be protesting in every *other* environment I work
in, where this change has not been made. Great. This is not an
adaptation I'm going to make.. I will wait for a few days and see if
this problem has a solution; if not, it's a deal-killer and I'll go
somewhere else.
> (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.)
I have encountered the foreign-keyboard problem too, and it's
extremely annoying, but at least in that case I understand that *I* am
the one entering a foreign territory. Nobody has surreptitiously
attached a new keyboard with a weird layout to my computer in the
middle of the night.
> 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.
Yeah, Customize seems like a misbegotten bit of feature-bloat to me,
but at least I don't have to use it a few hundred times a day.
This completion thing is something that wasn't broken before, but is
now. I need a way to fix it or Carbon Emacs and I are done.
Sorry about my inflamed tone; none of this is meant personally.
(Unless the person who made this change is reading.)
-jmc
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