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24.3; too many keybindings in minibuffer-local-completion-map

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Message #11 received at 16528 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 16528 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16528: 24.3;
 too many keybindings in minibuffer-local-completion-map
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:02:35 -0600

On Thu Jan 23 2014 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Indeed, this binding can be annoying.  Some people use it heavily (and
> rarely use TAB, IIUC), tho, so removing it is a bit tricky, but it was
> annoying enough for files that file-name completion now uses a special
> map where SPC is not bound to minibuffer-complete-word any more.

So it seems to me there are two views on this:

- there might be situations where the user wants to customize the
  keybindings provided by minibuffer-local-completion-map
  (this customization would then probably affect all calls of
  completing-read)

- in other cases, the code calling completing-read might want to
  provide some non-default keybindings (which would then affect only
  certain calls of completing-read, but it would apply to all users)

I do not know how common each of these cases might be.  (I never use
SPC for completion, but that's just me.)

Roland

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