Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > > > I think TAB should be bound to lisp-complete-symbol
> > > > in M-x eval-expression, aka M-: .
> > I think the only problem preventing this change is...
> > When this is fixed, it makes sense to allow TAB to
> > complete a lisp symbol...
>
> Uh, why? What's wrong with M-TAB or ESC TAB for Lisp symbol completion,
> exactly as in a Lisp buffer? If it's good enough for there, and it's always
> been good enough for here (minibuffer) in the past, why change it? 

Two things:

- M-TAB does not work when the window manager eats it breakfast
- TAB is rather commonly used for completion (for example when reading 
file names in Emacs, in shells, hacks to use TAB for completions in 
Emacs are seen as positive by some Emacs users)