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bug#25441: 26.0.50; Can't autocomplete symbol names ending in ?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#25441: 26.0.50; Can't autocomplete symbol names ending in ? |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:29:12 -0800 (PST) |
> I've just found that the Emacs manual documents this behavior
> (? prints a list of possible completions).
Yes. It's a really dumb design, IMHO. I've argued for years
now that characters such as SPC and ? and C-j (newline) should
be self-inserting during completion.
After several decades, SPC was finally made self-inserting for
file-name completion (only). Progress is slow...
Completion - ESPECIALLY `completing-read' as opposed to
`read-file-name' - is completely _general_. There should be
no assumption that completion candidates do not contain spaces
or question marks or newline chars. That's just silly (IMHO).
And making users use `C-q' to insert a space char is akin to
medieval torture - because it is completely unnecessary.