Re: C-x C-f, Tab (in)completion and visiting the wrong, new files

[David Reitter]

On 12 Aug 2007, at 11:40, Johan Bockgård wrote:

> David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Usually that means that I have to kill it and start again
>
> C-x C-v

Thanks, useful. The cursor is in an inconvenient place in the  
minibuffer, though, even though I believe it's intended that way.

> > But if the same happens to others as well, perhaps a more general
> > change could make Emacs more convenient in this respect.
>
> find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file

Could be done, but I don't think adding another confirmation step for  
new files (that are intended to be created) is as good as making the  
right guess when the user uses completion and confirms an incomplete  
(i.e. ambiguous) choice. This case may even be universal to all  
completion-based minibuffer inputs.