From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#1757: 23.0.60; completion DWIM too clever Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:14:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <007601c96c3a$bba3d8b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org, 1757@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230918222 4299 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2009 17:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:43:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 1757@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 02 18:44:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LIo4p-0003Ep-C4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:44:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIo3a-0005vq-7J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIo3U-0005v1-QV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIo3T-0005uH-IQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46140 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIo3T-0005u4-CY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:43529) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LIo3R-000370-9I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n02HhM5j018264; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:43:23 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n02HP97Z014150; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:25:09 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Richard M Stallman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:25:09 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 1757 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1757-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1757.123091654612266 (code B ref 1757); Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:25:09 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1757) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 2 Jan 2009 17:15:46 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n02HFXNd012256; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:15:34 -0800 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LInbP-0006vJ-PB; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:14:27 -0500 In-reply-to: <007601c96c3a$bba3d8b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:43:28 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:23699 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23595 Archived-At: I couldn't agree more. The is (the formerly optional) partial completion at work. It is now the default behavior to first try the traditional completion, and if that finds no matches, automatically try partial completion. IMO, the default behavior should remain as it was in Emacs 22 (21, 20...), and the new behavior should be optional. My first tendency is to dislike the new behavior, but now that I have some idea what it does, I will try looking for some advantages in it. However, a change like this calls for polling the users.