On 12 Aug 2005, at 16:58, Drew Adams wrote:
The point is that users are free to get rid of the SPC bindings to
minibuffer-complete-word. I think that David was saying that he
never uses
word completion - in that case, just removing the bindings
suffices. Those
who do use it have several options, including the alternatives of
binding it
to something else (to use SPC for inserting a space) and binding
something
else to a command to insert a space. You could even do it one way for
file-name completion and the other way 'round for other completion...
I think that would make a lot of sense.
Either way, I want to stress that the default binding of the space
bar should be too insert a space. Think of a new user, or of a user
like me who doesn't use a lot of spaces in file names. Don't pressure
someone into googling for a solution for something as simple as that.
It's not smart from a UI perspective to assign a highly application-
specific function to a commonly used key with a fixed meaning, just
because it's slightly more convenient to a small fraction of users
instead of hitting Tab.
Remove the binding and allow specialist users who know what they are
doing to add the binding with a simple define-key.
For non-filename minibuffers where spaces aren't inserted, I don't care.
By the way, mapping ESC to Meta is a very similar thing. Esc is meant
to let the user "escape" the current situation. But the difference is
that Esc for Meta is a burned-in, long-standing choice that a lot of
people (consoles!) are used to, so there's no way one should change it.
-D
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