From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>, 17239@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17239: 24.3.50; competion error (cl-assertion-failed (string-prefix-p uprefix ustring))
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:46:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn7fatpx.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvoazcl7wd.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 05 May 2014 08:52:19 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I spotted these behaviours ("=>" means "hit C-b TAB and the minibuffer
>> becomes") :
>> ~/~/ => ~/~/ [Complete, but not unique]
>> ~/foo/~/ => ~/
>> /foo/~/ => /foo/~/ [Complete, but not unique]
>
> Indeed, I'm not sure why ~/foo/~/ behaves differently. It's probably
> a side-effect of completion--sifn-requote. You can take a look at that
> function's leading comment to get an idea for why it might not always
> behave perfectly ;-)
This is perhaps a bit inconsistent, but it's unclear what a consistent
behaviour here would be, anyway -- it's all a bit DWIM, and I think
that's OK. So I'm closing this bug report.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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2014-04-11 9:02 bug#17239: 24.3.50; competion error (cl-assertion-failed (string-prefix-p uprefix ustring)) Nicolas Richard
2014-05-05 1:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-05 10:53 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-05-05 12:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-25 10:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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