From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wanrong Lin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#39484: 26.3; try-completion bug Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:47:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874kmf1peq.fsf@gnus.org> <87361zbi5x.fsf@igel.home> <87h7qfzdf8.fsf@gnus.org> <87y2jr9zwt.fsf@igel.home> <8fed8748-8331-5ca7-6c91-108c27945bb2@gmail.com> <87tuuf9xgp.fsf@igel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16837"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Stefan Monnier , 39484@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 01:48:28 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kXZdc-0004H3-5w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:48:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45830 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXZdb-0000fa-5I for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXZdC-0000fS-05 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34883) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXZdB-0006Mk-NQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kXZdB-0006zn-Lm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:48:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Wanrong Lin Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:48:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 39484 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 39484-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B39484.160384606026864 (code B ref 39484); Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 39484) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Oct 2020 00:47:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46429 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kXZcq-0006zE-EO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pl1-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:45125) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kXZcp-0006z2-AD for 39484@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pl1-f174.google.com with SMTP id z1so210025plo.12 for <39484@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:47:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:from:to:cc:references:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=rdGOxnnFX7pa2OiXyKeLg+KhovCwIGmuO9rldm/7xM0=; b=F9C6kdblihQvSZ7/zNSNdS0KmfrI8z0nyLsV7nXdJCiAeD/K2Hi51c9kijAS4qe9oa qht4B46F8/kmvzHgcnY2HC53/+O1gXc/YlBpNRgOwQuOUpUfKQL4pmVgdcHfrTmlvKaC T/q0DDfgh2h+pmHcmWwrTEhT21WTii9M1cPqY+uxgEu2Iq4p7LRJrTQbxIFZE4O1MPry y4ZHZtfhWP3QlW/d1N425WvGr4PsU6/9wKA2bLJnzfjXO+Dvz+AZ+OyzDdXggh78UAKg xachRf9YRg0M28dqtBqjhFtzzWtvmLTyANizF0VG1zqno5Uqzb5w4Ooi8iVdwwg0KCgN fuIw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:from:to:cc:references:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=rdGOxnnFX7pa2OiXyKeLg+KhovCwIGmuO9rldm/7xM0=; b=rY/HCTnnk4DIhY91jfTWGVFj5XvBJXMnZfVahCU7yylROL+2HvBL0dBNHG8DzsHMuf U/FazNXZfplg3wkHqROEl402oJChYGCW8u76glynwvctBuDUFazZPaJHm51CVtBMiIhI ueOZ5xcyIO0Lj/iaba5Oii/qE9aDJXeNCdYngdH3VymNxVAJdt/gvjflzGlcy7vZJkZC Hk+Oxxl77F8tGpJavKoVQfs80TK5Sz5sTLVeMq0L/NWL0b7f1elO9DzGHLOdehDp4Ma3 oh6nruVknp0RKi/V5oSFoUXuqrNRASme1O5CCXC9cBCsaULgxAYV5KpUDs4p447pH3Jl QcOw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530RWVPQgJQA9FGIXkOpOsKJmtmm32uDbmhaRMNI2RPCgRHyJb2K ix0Hx5cZpthdYBiGM7lS2I7OaZRxGg8NJw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJx6dCx6Zb6mMD6qvlGpxaolITUELn5ng6erX+WFptyj+2hflcjdO25Caa7eRVtkxTeRsFQZOg== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:eac3:b029:d6:fa8:75d6 with SMTP id p3-20020a170902eac3b02900d60fa875d6mr4743234pld.19.1603846053350; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.2.19] (c-71-226-226-185.hsd1.nj.comcast.net. [71.226.226.185]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id q11sm3145334pgm.79.2020.10.27.17.47.32 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:47:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:191807 Archived-At: Sorry,  I meant "abcd" as the answer for your example. On 10/27/2020 8:44 PM, Wanrong Lin wrote: > For this case, "abc" might be OK, unless you think there is another > better answer. But in the example I gave, don't you think "Xyz" is > obviously a better answer than "xyz"? > > The argument here is for some examples, the function does not return > the best answer, and also, does not seem to be consistent to me (for > those two examples I gave). There might be a reason behind this > "compromise", or, it might be just an arbitrary decision as documented > in the comments you gave. If it is the latter, can we improve on it? I > think those are valid questions. > > Wanrong > > On 10/27/2020 5:21 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> So what should (try-completion "abc" '("Abcde" "aBcdf" "abCdg")) return? >> >> Andreas. >> >