Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 19:00:44 +0200
Cc:60527@debbugs.gnu.org,monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
On 04/01/2023 16:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I didn't say I'm against any change in this behavior. Stefan proposed
at least two alternatives that produce basically the same user-facing
behavior when SPC is supposed to be interpreted verbatim, so they come
very close to the alternative that you like better, but still stop
short of breaking someone's muscle memory.
The first alternative provides sometimes the same, and sometimes
different behavior. In particular, when there are valid completions,
"SPC" would still perform completion -- something that I don't think
many users expect. Especially novices.
The second alternative is even more involved, requiring
'completing-read' callers to decide in advance whether the users will
want to have SPC insert SPC or perform completion. That's still odd and
seems like crossing the proper abstraction layers. The caller might not
know the collection contains spaces. And this approach can break
established muscle memory just the same, as soon as enough callers start
to make this choice.