From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34089: 27.0.50; Substring icomplete broken for M-x switch-to-buffer Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:02:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y37lea11.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1547604153 18820 195.159.176.226 (16 Jan 2019 02:02:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 02:02:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 34089@debbugs.gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_?= =?UTF-8?Q?T=C3=A1vora?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 03:02:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gjaXE-0004ik-1P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 03:02:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54521 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjaZK-0007oW-Mu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:04:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjaZE-0007oO-1I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:04:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjaZB-0007pu-OI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:04:31 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:32971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjaYm-0007l3-NE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gjaYk-0004Ck-0l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:04:04 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 02:04:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 34089 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 34089-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B34089.154760418616092 (code B ref 34089); Wed, 16 Jan 2019 02:04:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34089) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Jan 2019 02:03:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60485 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gjaXp-0004BU-G1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:03:05 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:39773) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gjaXm-0004B1-6h for 34089@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:03:03 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id x0G22xAU017591; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:02:59 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1CDA165879; Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:02:59 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87y37lea11.fsf@gmail.com> ("=?UTF-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_?= =?UTF-8?Q?T=C3=A1vora?="'s message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:11:38 +0000") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6461=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6461> : inlines <6994> : streams <1810204> : uri <2780549> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:154467 Archived-At: > Now type "M". The minibuffer suggest the buffer "Messages", but what > about "*Messages"? Why isn't it considered? Your (setq completion-styles '(substring)) is ignored by `C-x b` because that command uses category `buffer` which has a setting in completion-category-defaults of (styles basic substring), so before trying `substring` it tries `basic`. IOW, by default C-x b first tries prefix match and when that fails falls back on `substring` and if you want to use `substring` without using `basic` before, you'll need (add-to-list 'completion-category-overrides '(buffer (styles substring))) Arguably this is a bug: the purpose of this completion-category-defaults settings is to add substring after the global default `basic` style, so if the global default starts with `substring` the better behavior would be to just use the global default. Not sure how to write the code that combines category-default-styles and global styles in order to get that behavior. Stefan