Thien-Thi Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Wrong. Spaces in filenames are no problem to pretty much _any_ >> "unixoid" tool. The only place where they need escaping is in shells; >> and if you use file name completion, it will be provided automatically >> (i.e. by bash). > > however, we are not talking about robustness per se; indeed, emacs > can handle spaces in filenames. we are talking about the age-old > class of problem called "preferred default keybindings". towards > that end, i am in favor of leaving SPC for completion, and adding a > blurb and fragment of ~/.emacs code to the manual explaining how to > (1) self-insert SPC for filenames; (2) arrange for (1) to be the > default.
Please note that TAB is perfectly common for completion. We currently have the minibuffer bindings of minibuffer-complete on TAB, and minibuffer-complete-word on space. I severely doubt that anybody really requires the latter over the former on a regular basis. > wherever the blurb lands, a pointer to it will surely find its way > into every faq and wiki searched by the desperately disenfranchised. > > cue next 20 messages: "but those people SHOULDN'T HAVE TO munge > ~/.emacs for such a simple thing!" feh. I don't think that our main priority for keybindings should be to annoy people into reading the manual. Even though the traditional backspace (= C-h) binding on ttys did pretty much that, it was never really a big selling point for Emacs. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
