From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 87e422f: Beef up the Emacs string utility set a bit
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:29:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <258ef70f-5ee6-d6ad-264a-8fc77e5ac821@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tusec19r.fsf@gnus.org>
On 12/21/20 4:11 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> s-shared-start is already covered by try-completion, right? Which has
>>> various uses, e.g. in project--read-file-cpd-relative.
>>
>> It's also covered by compare-strings, but both need a bit of setup to
>> do the same as s-shared-start, so a wrapper can be useful (for
>> example, it's easy to forget to reset
>> completion-regexp-list). Additionally, discovering the right function
>> to call can be hard (I hadn't realized that try-completion could be
>> used for this, and neither had the authors or s.el).
>
> Perhaps adding something like shared-start would be a good addition for
> seq? The s.el semantics seem a bit unclear -- do "Foobar" and "foozot"
> share a prefix? Adding to seq (with a predicate to compare characters)
> would be nice...
But slow, right? Or maybe it would have a fast path for specific predicates?
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[not found] ` <20201221175347.9F1B820B76@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-12-21 18:24 ` master 87e422f: Beef up the Emacs string utility set a bit Stefan Kangas
2020-12-21 18:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 18:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 19:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-21 20:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 20:18 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-12-21 20:38 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-21 21:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 21:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2020-12-21 21:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 20:20 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-21 20:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 20:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-21 21:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 22:13 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-12-21 22:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-22 10:41 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-12-22 14:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-22 15:03 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-12-22 15:24 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-21 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-21 19:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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