Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

paul r wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Emacs seems to have a consistent behaviour regarding TAB and
> completion, i.e : Almost everywhere, TAB triggers completion when :
> - indentation does not make sens
> - tabulation char is unlikely to make sens
>
> For exemple, TAB triggers completion in find-file. I think TAB should
> be bound to lisp-complete-symbol in M-x eval-expression, aka M-: .
>
> Hope everybody agree and this will be widely considered as a simple
> yet positive change.


At least I agree, I even have this in my .emacs

  (define-key read-expression-map (kbd "TAB") #'lisp-complete-symbol)