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30.0.50; Typing SPC in a minibuffer with completion

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Message #14 received at 60527 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 60527 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#60527: 30.0.50; Typing SPC in a minibuffer with completion
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 05:29:19 +0200

> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 00:50:10 +0200
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> 
> On 03/01/2023 21:05, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
> Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> > So my favorite option is indeed to simply remove this binding.
> > Those few users who like it and use it (probably long-time users of
> > Emacs) could easily get it back with:
> > 
> >      (define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map
> >                  " " 'minibuffer-complete-word)
> 
> Yes, please.

My preference is for the more-compatible alternatives.  It is
notoriously non-trivial to figure out minibuffer bindings, so
expecting users to do the above is not very friendly.

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