From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 12254@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12254: 24.2; completion fails backward-char
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:05:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1txvk1t74.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsjb5fuha.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:05:19 -0400")
On 2012-08-30 02:05 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> That's only because completion-at-point-functions is used less often so
> the bug in the above code doesn't bite as often.
> But your above completion function is already buggy in Emacs-23.4 since
> it can't complete "IG!R" to "IGNORE", whereas after adding the
> save-excursion such completion works just fine.
Thank you for this.
This isn't clear on the documentation on completion-at-point-functions.
It is a trap that one can easily fall into. I wonder if you may add a
note in the doc-string of completion-at-point-functions. Thanks.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-30 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-22 2:40 bug#12254: 24.2; completion fails backward-char Leo
2012-08-22 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-29 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-30 12:05 ` Leo [this message]
2012-08-30 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-30 22:25 ` Leo
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