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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:287090 Archived-At: On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 08:48:22PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote: >> In case of no completions it will be formatted to: "0 possible >> completions". > >Why? Why wouldn't *Completions* just be >removed? And "[No match]" is already echoed. > In the original code there is a message to print when there are no completions, that's where the original question came from. Actually the new code is simpler. >Sounds like things are getting more, not less, >complicated for users (maybe overengineering?). > For the user everything is pretty much the same. >Why would we ever say "0 possible completions"? > >Why bother with "possible"? We never show >IMpossible completions, do we? > >When there are no matches we just tell users >there's no match. Always have. Simple. >