From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, philipk@posteo.net, 66187@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66187: read-file-name unexpected behavior when MUSTMATCH is a function
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:03:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pm1u6f8l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttr7nzyj.fsf@breatheoutbreathe.in> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, 66187@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:18:42 -0700
> From: Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> I dug a little more and realized that the IMO unexpected behavior
> resides in completing-read itself. According to the completing-read
> docstring, its REQUIRE-MATCH argument can be
>
> - a function, which will be called with the input as the
> argument. If the function returns a non-nil value, the
> minibuffer is exited with that argument as the value.
>
> I incorrectly assumed that this function would prevent matching items
> inside COLLECTION for which the function returns nil. What it actually
> does it accept input which is not part of COLLECTION if the
> REQUIRE-MATCH function returns non-nil. IOW, it doesn't narrow the
> potential completion options; it widens them.
>
> For example, given:
>
> (completing-read "Prompt: " '("a" "b") nil
> (lambda (input)
> (string= "a" input)))
>
> I expected that the prompt would refuse to complete "b". I was wrong.
>
> Since completing-read is such a fundamental part of Emacs, I doubt it
> will be possible to change this behavior. What do you think about the
> attached patch to clarify the completing-read docstring?
I don't think I see how your proposed change clarifies this issue.
Adding Stefan for possibly more comments and ideas.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-24 21:31 bug#66187: read-file-name unexpected behavior when MUSTMATCH is a function Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-25 3:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-09-25 5:12 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-25 21:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-09-26 8:37 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-27 0:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-09-27 0:55 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-27 1:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-10-03 21:18 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-03 23:00 ` Drew Adams
2023-10-04 3:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-10-04 5:22 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-05 1:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-10-04 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-10-05 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-05 20:20 ` Drew Adams
2023-10-06 4:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-06 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-06 14:08 ` Drew Adams
2023-10-06 4:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-06 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-06 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-06 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-07 5:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-07 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-07 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-07 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-12 21:26 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-26 6:49 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-18 0:24 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-19 2:52 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-09 8:06 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-25 20:53 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-28 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-28 19:28 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-06 5:55 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-29 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-03 20:43 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-04 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-04 6:25 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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