From: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: 43774@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43774: 27.1; fido-mode completion don't accept empty string nor matching substring
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2020 10:18:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgautq5x.fsf@protesilaos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ft6vkei5.fsf@iki.fi> (Teemu Likonen's message of "Sat, 03 Oct 2020 09:30:42 +0300")
On 2020-10-03, 09:30 +0300, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> Emacs fido-mode (which is part of icomplete-mode) implements minibuffer
> completion system which offers quick and easy way to choose one of the
> available options. However, sometimes user needs to enter a different
> substring which is not any of the available options. Sometimes even
> empty string is needed. This seems to be impossible in fido-mode. The
> following example demonstrates the empty string problem.
>
> [..]
Hi Teemu,
Try to use C-j (icomplete-force-complete-and-exit) to insert a substring
that is not part of the list of candidates.
A simple reproducible recipe (I am on Emacs 28.0.50):
+ Start 'emacs -Q'
+ In the scratch buffer first evaluate:
(fido-mode 1)
+ Then evaluate:
(insert
(completing-read "Test arbitrary input: " '(one two three)))
+ Instead of selecting among {one,two,three} you can type any string,
such as "test" and add it with C-j. Your input shall be inserted at
point.
This should work for a substring, but I am not sure it does for an empty
string.
--
Protesilaos Stavrou
protesilaos.com
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-03 6:30 bug#43774: 27.1; fido-mode completion don't accept empty string nor matching substring Teemu Likonen
2020-10-04 7:18 ` Protesilaos Stavrou [this message]
2020-10-04 8:24 ` Teemu Likonen
2021-06-06 11:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-06 12:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
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