From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9598: 24.0.50; completion goes too far Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:01:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318370577 27621 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2011 22:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9598@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 00:02:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkPQ-0006Qa-47 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:02:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54401 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkPP-00075u-Mv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkPN-00075j-4d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkPL-0000i7-Ps for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkPL-0000i2-Mp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkPe-0002Bv-CZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:03:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9598 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9598-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9598.13183705318356 (code B ref 9598); Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9598) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Oct 2011 22:02:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkOo-0002Ah-1I for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkOk-0002AZ-Nn for 9598@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:02:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDkOQ-0007Dt-SE; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:01:47 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:52:50 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:03:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:52547 Archived-At: Completion styles other than plain prefix completion (e.g. partial-completion, substring completion, ...) can't just use try-completion, so they use all-completions and then merge the resulting entries to construct the result of completion. I see. But it should not be hard to bind a variable to say "this call to all-completions is for completion, not for displaying a list." This said, I can't think of any reason why it's important to show the current buffer in *Completions* for C-x b since C-x b is about switching to another buffer. The reason it is important for me is that sometimes I use this to see what buffers exist with a certain prefix -- and the omission of the current buffer makes the result incorrect. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/