Re: autocomplete idiosyncracies

[Kai Grossjohann]

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