From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 1085@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1085: 23.0.60; all-completions, try-completion inconsistent: Info-read-node-name-1
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:31:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7i8j6cqt.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006d01c928d1$e7709200$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:10:34 -0700")
> Right. I did misunderstand that. You use the boundaries thing to pass
> along the context "(" for Info file name "(em", but you don't use it
> to pass the directory for file-name completion - and I do see (and
> did, but forgot) how you pass the directory in the latter case. My bad
> about that part.
> I was following my analogy and thought that you did the same thing for
> both, using the directory part as a boundary/contextual "prefix" of
> the relative file name.
> But IIUC, there is no invalidation of the invariants for file-name
> completion.
Your 3rd invariant is invalidated because all-completions does not
return the directory part of a completion.
> If you agree about that, then let's come back to "(em", which is a case, we
> agree, where the invariants are currently invalidated. IIUC, you say it is a
> case where the invariants *must* be invalidated. My question is why. Why
> couldn't we treat this completion the same way we treat file-name completion?
We do treat it identically.
Stefan
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2008-10-04 22:58 ` bug#1085: 23.0.60; all-completions, try-completion inconsistent: Info-read-node-name-1 Drew Adams
2008-10-04 23:18 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-05 22:53 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-05 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-06 4:29 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-06 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-06 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-07 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-07 4:42 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-07 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-07 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-07 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-07 23:10 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-08 2:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-10-08 6:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-08 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-08 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-15 22:25 ` bug#1085: marked as done (23.0.60; all-completions, try-completion inconsistent: Info-read-node-name-1) Emacs bug Tracking System
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