Re: project--completing-read-strict breaks ada-mode project completion table

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>
>> As you mention in uniquify-files.el:
>>
>>     (defun completion-get-data-string (user-string table pred)
>>     [...]
>>     	  ;;  FIXME: This is ultimately called from
>>     	  ;;  `completion-try-completion' or `completion-all-completions';
>>     	  ;;  there is only one style currently being used. Need to pass that
>>     	  ;;  style from there to here.
>>
>> it only makes sense to call the conversion function corresponding to the
>> style that was used to generate that string.
>>
>> [ Also while a specific call to minibuffer-complete (or
>>   minibuffer-completion-help, or minibuffer-force-complete, ...) only
>>   uses a single style, a given completing-read session can currently use
>>   several completion styles.    ]
>>
>> So I think we should fix this FIXME before we can move this code to
>> minibuffer.el.  Maybe we can save the completion style that returned
>> that string in a text-property, or even directly store the conversion
>> function in there (so we don't need to extend completion-style-alist).
>
> ... completion-get-data-string is called after
> completing-read-default, via uniq-file-completing-read-default-advice.
> At that point, user-string was computed by the last style tried (ie
> uniq-file-all-completions, which could set a text property), but I'm not
> sure if it's copied (losing the text properties) in the middle
> somewhere. I'll try it.

This is now implemented, in ELPA.

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