On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, et01267 wrote: > OK, I think I found it: > > (define-key minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map " " 'minibuffer- > complete)
Just out of curiosity, since I didn't need it, I've added it into my .emacs, and voila: now I have two completion keys! Now jmc will find peace (until we get the next problem :) Roussanka > > ET > > On Apr 27, 10:23 am, Eric Tiffany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
