From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Andreas Politz\, INF|INF-I" <politza@fh-trier.de>
Cc: 8197@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8197: 24.0.50; completion-substring-try-completion bug ?
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:53:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwrchj784.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111007063041.M3161@fh-trier.de> (Andreas Politz's message of "Fri, 7 Oct 2011 08:42:33 +0200")
>> > (completion-substring-try-completion
>> > "foo" '("bar-foo" "baz-foo") nil 2)
>> > => ("ba-foo" . 6)
>> > I would expect this to return ("ba-foo" . 2) .
>> Now it returns ("-foo" . 4).
>> Is this progress?
I think this is the correct answer, yes.
> That was a while ago, but in my understanding the function should
> return a partial substring completion (matching *ba*-foo* in this case)
> and the index of the ambiguous part.
No, completion styles should not presume that they are used in
conjunction with some other style. "completion-*-try-completion" should
return a string which matches (using the same style) the same set
of elements.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-07 18:38 bug#8197: 24.0.50; completion-substring-try-completion bug ? Andreas Politz
2011-10-07 2:09 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-07 6:42 ` Andreas Politz, INF|INF-I
2011-10-07 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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