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

[Nat Goodspeed]

At 08:34 AM 12/9/2006, David Vanderschel wrote:

> On Saturday, December 09, "Lennart Borgman" 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >The reason that space no longer work for file name
> >completion is that file names may contain spaces.
>
> That was no problem in version 20, which I am still
> running.  E.g., if I type "c:/Prog ", it completes out
> to "c:/Program".  If I then type another space, that
> just echoes, as there is a directory name with a space
> there.  If I then type yet another space, it completes
> out to "c:/Program Files/".  This seems to be a
> natural and friendly way for it to behave.  Since it
> did so in earlier versions and apparently does no
> longer, I would venture that it is now broken.

  Hmm. I'm running 21.3. Would you please try this experiment?

Use C-x C-f and type:

$USERPROFILE/My<space>

as if you were about to type "My Documents".

When I do that -- which is the way I usually navigate to "My 
Documents" -- on typing the space character, I get a bonk and the 
message "Text is read-only". Then it displays "C:\Documents and 
Settings\me\My" -- WITHOUT a space. Even though by now I know to 
expect the bonk and the spurious error message, I must type two 
spaces: "My<space><space>Documents" to get where I'm going.

With respect, that behavior feels broken to me. Perhaps it could be 
fixed without sacrificing the use of space as a completion character 
-- but I always use TAB myself, so I'd gladly make that trade.