From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Kevin Vigouroux <ke.vigouroux@laposte.net>, 50583@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50583: 27.2; test-completion should return non-nil
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 10:13:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dfiuuhj.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da5ee2a1-2599-2f4a-6c63-77bd148bffd1@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:37:01 +0300")
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> On 14.09.2021 16:25, Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
>> In the following code, I assume that `test-completion' should return a
>> non-‘nil’ value because "foo" is a valid completion alternative.
>
> "foo" is not a member of the list '("foobar" "bar" "barfoo"), so
> that's not true.
The doc string here is vague, though:
Return non-nil if STRING is a valid completion.
So perhaps it could be clarified. I think it wants to say something
like "if STRING is in COMPLETIONS", but since COMPLETIONS can be a
function, that's not quite right.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 13:25 bug#50583: 27.2; test-completion should return non-nil Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-14 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 8:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-09-15 10:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 16:01 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-16 12:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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