Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32 filename completion using space bar

[Francis Wright]

From: "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden>
To: "jpff" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Francis Wright" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>; 
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Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32 filename completion using space bar


> jpff wrote:
> > Personally I find the lack of space for completion a real pain.  I
> > would turn it off if I knew how!
> > ==John ffitch

I think you just need to redefine one or two keymaps.  From the News file:

Two new keymaps, `minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map'  and
`minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map', apply whenever
Emacs reads a file name in the minibuffer.  These key maps override
the usual binding of SPC to `minibuffer-complete-word' (so that file
names with embedded spaces could be typed without the need to quote
the spaces).

> There is no problem turning it on with a little bit of elisp code. However 
> there is a logical problem since file names can include spaces. Do you 
> have any suggestion how to resolve that logical conflict?

Either avoid filenames including spaces or quote spaces in filenames (i.e. 
C-q space).

Francis