Re: Isn't flyspell-use-meta-tab default to nil more optimal?

[Leo]

On WED, 6 DEC 2006, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     It seems a convention in emacs packages to use M-TAB to do symbol
>     completion. While the default value of flyspell-use-meta-tab is t and
>     that will override this key binding in various modes such as
>     AUCTeX. Don't you think flyspell-use-meta-tab default to nil more
>     optimal?
>
> That would be an improvement in the very specific case you have
> mentioned, but it would be inconvenient for all other uses of
> Flyspell.  All in all, very much a change for the worse.

It seems not that bad since `C-.' is also bound to
flyspell-auto-correct-word.

,----[ C-h k C-. ]
| C-. runs the command flyspell-auto-correct-word
|   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `flyspell.el'.
| It is bound to C-..
| (flyspell-auto-correct-word)
| 
| Correct the current word.  This command proposes various successive
| corrections for the current word.
`----

regards,
-- 
Leo