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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, 1800@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:05:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004001c970f2$810f7440$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mye3t5hz.fsf@jurta.org>

> > This is not (necessarily) about partial completion. The new 
> > feature is that a list of completion methods is used, in
> > order, to try to complete user input. That list is the
> > value of `completion-styles', which by default is `(basic
> > partial-completion)'.
> 
> I think we should replace `partial-completion' in the default
> value of `completion-styles' with a new completion method, e.g.
> `confirm-partial-completion'.

Providing `confirm-partial-completion' as another alternative completion style
is fine, but why make it the default behavior? What's wrong with the traditional
behavior as default?







  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87skfslnlx.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2009-01-06 12:31 ` bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion Richard M Stallman
2009-01-06 19:00   ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-06 22:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-06 22:54       ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07  5:35         ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 20:09       ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-06 22:36     ` Drew Adams
2009-01-06 23:12       ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07  5:35         ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 12:07           ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07 15:56             ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 16:48               ` Drew Adams
2009-01-07 17:43                 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07 18:05                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-01-07 19:30                     ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-06 22:59     ` Richard M Stallman
2009-08-15 22:35   ` bug#1800: marked as done (23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-03-09 21:25 bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion Xavier Maillard

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