From: Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 29007@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29007: 25.3; [PATCH] Make filecache use extended completion
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:44:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lqa3pmc.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fu9vuq54.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 03 Nov 2017 21:19:03 +0200")
OK, I'll elaborate.
Currently, file-cache-minibuffer-complete does longest-prefix completion
via all-completions only, instead of completion-all-completions, which
completes according to the completion-styles variable. And here are
some cases where this behavior is inconvenient or even insufficient,
when trying to open some file via `C-x C-f C-TAB'.
1. Opening some file from the file-cache, without remembering the exact
prefix.
Example: You only remember that the file ends in '-foo.el'.
2. Opening some file, while the file-cache contains many files having the
same prefix.
Example: The cache contains the following files.
aaa.a
aab.b
aba.c
abb.d
baa.e
bab.f
bba.g
bbb.h
Here prefix completion is basically useless, but entering the unique
suffix and using substring completion immediately completes to the
unique match.
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-04 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-26 6:56 bug#29007: 25.3; [PATCH] Make filecache use extended completion Andreas Politz
2017-11-03 9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-03 17:12 ` Andreas Politz
2017-11-03 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-04 17:44 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2017-11-04 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-04 19:31 ` Andreas Politz
2017-11-04 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-04 20:53 ` Andreas Politz
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