From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 62700@debbugs.gnu.org, Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>,
juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:42:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsfdchhwc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83jzyoq040.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:30:55 +0300")
>> > I think it's the intended behavior. In this case, it looks not
>> > useful, because the string you typed before starting to use M-<UP> and
>> > M-<DOWN> happens to be at the end of each completion candidate. But
>> > this is not the only situation possible. Basically, completion always
>> > modifies only the text before point, leaving what's after point
>> > intact, so that the user could have after point stuff that completion
>> > should ignore, and that eventually will be appended to the selected
>> > candidate.
>>
>> Could you give an example of when this would be desirable?
>
> When completing on shell commands, for example: the text after point
> is usually the command-line arguments to the command, and the
> completion is on command names or on some file name.
That shouldn't be a worry: when you complete shell commands, you're not
really using "minibuffer completion" (as is the case in `C-h v`) but
"in-buffer completion" (i.e. TAB is bound to `completion-at-point`
rather than to `minibuffer-complete`), so the completion code knows that
you're only completing the command part and will (hopefully) be careful
not to touch anything before or after it.
More specifically, in `M-!` if you're at
echo hello; e!s world
where `!` shows where point is, the *Completions* buffer should show all
command that start with `e` and end in `s` (assuming we're using
`basic` or `partial-completion` styles) and if you use
minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion, they should replace `e!s`
with the selection. IOW it should neither "leave the text after point
alone" nor "replace all the text after point".
>> For example, suppose I wanted to wanted to complete filenames starting
>> with x and ending in .c.
> I don't think the default completion supports such functionality, at
> least not with the styles we have by default in completion-styles.
The behavior Spencer describes is very much part of our default (it's
provided both by the `basic` and the `partial-completion` styles, both
of which are enabled by default).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-06 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-06 17:56 bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer Spencer Baugh
2023-04-06 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-06 18:58 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-06 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-06 20:42 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-04-06 18:55 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-06 19:22 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-07 16:37 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-07 21:02 ` sbaugh
2023-04-08 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-08 10:58 ` sbaugh
2023-04-08 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-08 18:36 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-08 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-09 16:40 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-09 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-08 18:30 ` Juri Linkov
[not found] ` <ierbk6lup79.fsf@janestreet.com>
2024-04-07 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
[not found] <b921ea5c-71a2-4e8f-b1cf-dd26831f8104@email.android.com>
2023-04-10 18:20 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-20 16:52 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-20 18:18 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-20 18:46 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-20 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-21 18:56 ` sbaugh
2023-04-22 10:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-22 12:57 ` sbaugh
2023-04-22 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-22 21:38 ` sbaugh
2023-04-23 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-23 11:48 ` sbaugh
2023-04-24 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02 15:13 ` sbaugh
2023-05-02 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-08 15:48 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-08 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-03 0:58 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-04 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-10 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-12 18:27 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-13 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 16:54 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-13 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 20:59 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-14 17:32 ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-03 17:37 ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-04 0:30 ` sbaugh
2023-09-04 6:51 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-14 7:39 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-15 17:42 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-20 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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