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Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: SPC no longer completes in minibuffer?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:29:28 +0200

> From: "Viktor Haag" <viktor.haag@gmail.com>
> Date: 23 Mar 2006 06:00:48 -0800
> 
> It appears that the 22.x maintainers have decided that letting the SPC
> key complete filenames in the minibuffer is a bad idea, so they no
> longer bind it to minibuffer-complete-word whn entering a filename into
> the minibuffer.

Yes, because more and more people and systems are using file names
with embedded spaces.

> Can anyone give advice on how to go re-invent the old behaviour given
> the new changes that have been made to the way the minibuffer works now
> (apparently a couple new keymaps have been created around this issue?
> I'm not very familiar with how keymaps work, I'm afraid...)?
> 
> If anyone can help it would really save me some time and hassle --
> thanks!

Please read the NEWS file (search for "SPC"), it explains how to do
that.




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