From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Cc: 6830@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6830: widget-complete bad completions in :type 'file
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:26:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvcmvmqlz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d393zj1l.fsf@gnu.org> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:30:30 +0800")
>> On GNU/Linux, the first overlay in the sorted array happens to be the
>> one whose `field' value is equal to the text property, so find_field
>> works. On MS-Windows, the first overlay is the one whose value is
>> `completion', so find_field decides that the field begins and ends at
>> the same position. The rest, as they say, is history.
> Interesting. The overlays code should be independent of operating
> system. Any idea what causes the sort order to be different?
> Does the problem go away if in
> (let ((minibuffer-completion-table collection)
> (minibuffer-completion-predicate predicate)
> (ol (make-overlay start end nil nil t)))
> (overlay-put ol 'field 'completion)
> you also specify a `priority' of (say) 5?
I'm wondering what is this other overlay, why it's here, and why it ends
up sometimes taking precedence,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-25 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-09 11:45 bug#6830: widget-complete bad completions in :type 'file Lennart Borgman
2010-09-04 17:48 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-04 22:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-05 1:47 ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-22 21:33 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 23:02 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-22 23:51 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 3:57 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 15:27 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-24 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-25 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2012-02-24 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-24 19:47 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-25 3:30 ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-25 5:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-02-25 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-25 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-04 9:37 ` Chong Yidong
2012-03-04 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-05 3:07 ` Chong Yidong
2012-03-05 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-05 21:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-06 3:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-06 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-06 21:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-07 22:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-09 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-09 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-09 16:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-12 8:36 ` Paul Eggert
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