Re: lisp-complete-symbol

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>The following change has some annoying side-effect:
>
>2005-12-10  Kevin Rodgers  <ihs_4664@ihs.com>
>
>	* emacs-lisp/lisp.el (lisp-complete-symbol): Regenerate the
>	completion list, even after a partial completion has been
>	inserted in the current buffer.  If there are more than 1
>	completion, redisplay the *Completions* buffer; if the
>	completion is unique, delete the *Completions* window.
>
>The problem is that it changed the behavior such that the *completions*
>buffer is shown after every completion.  Before that change, the
>*completions* buffer was only shown if the completion failed because
>of ambiguity.
>
>I'm not sure what this was supposed to fix, but I think it was not the right
>fix,
>  
>
I believe it was to display the correct list in the *Completions* buffer 
if the user changed the input string to complete.