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Re: autocomplete idiosyncracies
From: |
Kai Grossjohann |
Subject: |
Re: autocomplete idiosyncracies |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:38:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
It may work better to use TAB instead of SPC.
Kai
xzqx <adudfield@gmail.com> writes:
> Has anyone noticed that emacs sometimes behaves differently regarding
> autocomplete? For instance, suppose I have a directory containing the
> following files:
>
> blah
> blahblah
> blah-blah
> blah-1
>
> If I C-x C-f and navigate to this directory, then hit space ONCE, I
> see:
>
> Find file: ~/etest/blah
>
> If I hit space again, I see:
>
> Find file: ~/etest/blah-
>
> If I hit space again, I see that, plus the completions list: blah-1
> and blah-blah. If I'm not thinking, sometimes I forget that files
> called 'blah' and 'blahblah' even could exist.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to tweak this behavior? Many
> websearches have come up empty. Thanks in advance,
>
> Anne