From: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 55205@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates
Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 10:49:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e59133cf-b305-6cb8-7f06-3b76a87c0b7c@daniel-mendler.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwnf41mg4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 5/2/22 08:31, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I'm a strong proponent of "different completions should be selectable by
> different strings", for the kinds of reasons exposed by Daniel: it makes
> it possible to use more UI styles than just selection (and it interacts
> better with other things like elimination of duplicates).
>
> But FWIW, that is not a reason to force throwing away the text
> properties (IOW the act of stripping the text properties is not
> a feature of the code).
As I understood, it is somehow a consequence of the way completion is
implemented, it is a step-wise input process via
completion-try-completion. If I enter pifb TAB it is essentially the
same as if I entered package-install-from-buffer. There is not really a
candidate lookup going on, the UI only ever sees the (maybe even
partially completed) string returned by the completion backend.
There are two ways out:
- The completion UI could lookup the original candidate string in a
final step just before returning from the minibuffer. This could only
happen when REQUIRE-MATCH non-nil.
- We throw away the entire paradigm of completion and go with selection
only. But I think we would lose to much by doing that.
But again, since Lars asked this - text properties are not stripped,
they never materialize in the first place due to completion just being a
form of user input. (Technically they are stripped, but only to
normalize the resulting input in case some text properties make it through.)
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-02 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-01 8:27 bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 11:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 20:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02 2:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 9:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 21:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02 16:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02 16:38 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:48 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:57 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 18:35 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 12:40 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 12:54 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 13:19 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 13:21 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 12:50 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 17:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 17:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 18:27 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 18:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 19:01 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 19:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 20:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-01 20:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 21:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-01 21:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 6:31 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02 8:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 9:00 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-03 10:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-04 7:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-04 8:24 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-04 8:51 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 8:49 ` Daniel Mendler [this message]
2022-05-02 9:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 9:57 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 10:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 10:17 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 18:06 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 0:34 ` Richard Stallman
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