From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 09:34:47 +0300 Message-ID: <838rf2opa0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <864jpsrgaz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <86h6tr4pi8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87sfdbmmmh.fsf@catern.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14332"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 62700@debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh@janestreet.com, juri@linkov.net To: sbaugh@catern.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 08 08:35:33 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pl2Af-0003Xe-Lz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 08:35:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pl2AG-0002cX-3q; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pl2AA-0002cF-MU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pl2AA-00025i-DH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pl2A9-0006w5-Qf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:35:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 06:35:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 62700 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 62700-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B62700.168093567726627 (code B ref 62700); Sat, 08 Apr 2023 06:35:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 62700) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Apr 2023 06:34:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57555 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pl29l-0006vP-4y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37072) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pl29g-0006vA-KK for 62700@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pl29R-0001nI-0j; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:34:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=aZ8ZoQq7MhDkefnykFRE46fm89Tj8JC11GZrdaAZf98=; b=i+YL8G0OoF1d i5Ud9Krr8evtBrgzM6GSQED8wwI7Ruz/zomvwvwX56ffdYQ5UEpd9/x3n939XsF0UY+6Izau2Nlsq ah0XBXiwHQFMlIbV3bYG1Zo0Xdyktb86jSZJRxw4trYEibxhnX6jk0fyD5htj4xJL74eIM0vy4KkW XXeafnxVFF0M/10LPwTF9+7NfxggvlRcSxgskyot+kvNVTyZLGh3EsfZdWhbWLXeALGIqbp+LtxRH +IDmGtkRUM1krlmryU1CuRYSk87bC80wnNP+p3WnhB0XTH1caHsOWAQBwjN1ZsekzxKVHPNsPJJsC wnat1cTBT3A+2aRUFQ1jOA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pl29N-0006uh-Bb; Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:34:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sfdbmmmh.fsf@catern.com> (sbaugh@catern.com) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:259452 Archived-At: > Cc: 62700@debbugs.gnu.org, Spencer Baugh > From: sbaugh@catern.com > Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 21:02:47 +0000 (UTC) > > Juri Linkov writes: > > Changing the API will definitely cause problems with backwards-compatibility. > > But maybe you could find a simple heuristic that would decide what base-suffix > > to set in minibuffer-completion-help? Then no API changes will be needed. > > Thank you for the guidance and suggestion. > > Here's one heuristic which works decently well: If this is for master, I'm fine with such changes. But if you intend to request installing this on emacs-29, then I will object making non-trivial changes in any code that is not specific to the M- and M- bindings that are new in Emacs 29. I don't want to risk any regressions in general-purpose completion code at this late stage. Thanks.