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Re: How to create a directory containing spaces in dired-mode?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: How to create a directory containing spaces in dired-mode?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:34:25 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> @Peter: indeed, with emacs -Q it works. So this could be related to
> dired+ / ido-mode (probably the latter) ... I would have to
> 'minimalize' it to be sure

Historically, Emacs has used the SPC to perform completion in the
minibuffer (similar to TAB, tho subtly different).  This was changed
somewhere around Emacs-22/23 so SPC is "normal" when entering file names
(but still performs completion for most/all other minibuffer entries
where completion can be used).

Apparently, the same change was not applied to the IDO code.

As for why SPC is used for completion?  In the Unix world, SPC is/was
used as a separator, rarely/never within a name, so SPC in filenames
under Unix is/was traditionally rare.


        Stefan




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