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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: 11906@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#11906: 24.1; completion-at-point failures
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:35:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvppp9c2bo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1pppaoz2c.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo Liu's message of "Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:04:43 +0800")

> Another issue as mentioned in the report is when you complete, for
> example, 'abc' to 'aa bb cc' (or whatever strange chars are in the
> completion candidate) and the completion function fails to go back to
> the start.

This would be a bug (probably in the completion-at-point-function).

> Can this be improved? On a case to base basis the completion function
> could use a marker so that it can subsequently find the starting point.

That should "never" be necessary.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-06 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-11  5:54 bug#11906: 24.1; completion-at-point failures Leo
2012-07-12 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-10  6:38   ` Leo Liu
2013-05-10 20:36     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-11  1:50       ` Leo Liu
2013-05-11  3:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-11  4:47           ` Leo Liu
2013-05-11 14:51             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-13  1:28               ` Leo Liu
2013-05-13 15:27                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-14  0:56                   ` Leo Liu
2013-05-14  2:53                     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-14  3:30                       ` Leo Liu
2013-05-11 20:18             ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-11 23:11           ` Daimrod
2013-05-13 15:28             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-21 23:39           ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-22 19:16             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-05  3:23               ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-05  4:33                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-06  1:02                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-06  4:00                     ` Leo Liu
2013-12-06  4:32                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-06  5:36                         ` Leo Liu
2013-12-06 13:15                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-06 14:04                             ` Leo Liu
2013-12-06 17:35                               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-12-07  2:05                                 ` Leo Liu
2013-12-07 22:45                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-06 17:36                               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-07  2:02                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-07  2:40                                 ` Leo Liu
2013-12-07 16:13                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-12-09  2:27                                     ` Leo Liu

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