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Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:
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paul r |
Subject: |
Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-: |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:49:52 +0100 |
Drew Adams wrote :
> On the contrary. TAB in the minibuffer either (1) self-inserts (when not
> using completing-read or read-file-name) or (2) completes the entire
> minibuffer input in such a way that you can hit RET to enter the completed
> input.
In other words, TAB does completion in minibuffer whenever possible.
And, in lisp modes, TAB does NOT self-insert.
For those reasons, I advocate dropping self-insert in favor of
complete-symbol for Tab in M-: , for usability, consistency, and
intuitiveness.
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, (continued)
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, paul r, 2008/03/17
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/17
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, paul r, 2008/03/18
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/18
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/19
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, paul r, 2008/03/19
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Andreas Schwab, 2008/03/19
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:,
paul r <=
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/16
- RE: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Drew Adams, 2008/03/16
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Bastien Guerry, 2008/03/16
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Chong Yidong, 2008/03/22
- Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Juri Linkov, 2008/03/22
- RE: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:, Drew Adams, 2008/03/23