Re: spacebar in minibuffer not bound to minibuffer-complete-word

[Kevin Rodgers]

Daniel Barrett wrote:
> In the latest build of Emacs 22.0.50.3 from CVS, the spacebar is no longer
> bound to minibuffer-complete-word, but to ordinary self-insert-command.
> Is this intentional or a bug?
>
> This happens even when invoked with no startup file, "emacs -q".

From etc/NEWS:

| ** When Emacs prompts for file names, SPC no longer completes the file 
name.
| This is so filenames with embedded spaces could be input without the
| need to quote the space with a C-q.  The underlying changes in the
| keymaps that are active in the minibuffer are described below under
| "New keymaps for typing file names".
...
| *** New keymaps for typing file names
|
| Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'  and
| `minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
| Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer.  These key maps override
| the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
| names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
| the spaces).

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Kevin Rodgers