Re: completing-read does not accept spaces

[Miguel Guedes]

On 16/01/14 18:13, Drew Adams wrote:
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> No.  There is no bug here.  This is the behavior by design, like
> it or not.
>
> Do I personally think that `SPC' should generally be self-inserting
> during completion?  You bet I do.  And so should `?'.  And so should
> `C-j' (newline).  (And this is the case in Icicle mode, for instance.)
>
> But that is not the opinion of Emacs Dev.  It took decades to finally
> get `SPC' to be self-inserting for file-name completion (see variable
> `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map', in the same Elisp manual
> node).  Patience. ;-)

But would it be fair to say that the command `timeclock-out' shouldn't 
be making use of `completing-read' for entering a reason (to clock out) 
and thus a bug should be filed?

Many thanks for your replies.