Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: planner-multi causing problems...

[Charles philip Chan]

On  5 Aug 2005, address@hidden wrote:

> For some reason I get the impression you think that using SPC as your
> auto-completion key is not optimal or desirable, which I find interesting,
> given that it's the default in emacs. No?

This ia only partly true:


,----[ 4.3 Completion ]
| For certain kinds of arguments, you can use "completion" to enter the argument
| value.  Completion means that you type part of the argument, then Emacs
| visibly fills in the rest, or as much as can be determined from the part you
| have typed.
| 
|    When completion is available, certain keys--<TAB>, <RET>, and <SPC>--are
| rebound to complete the text present in the minibuffer into a longer string
| that it stands for, by matching it against a set of "completion alternatives"
| provided by the command reading the argument.  `?' is defined to display a
| list of possible completions of what you have inserted.
`----

I think most people, including myself, tend to use TAB because it is similiar
to Bash.

Charles

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