From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [friedman@splode.com: some other observations on pcomplete] Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:35:20 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <871yeq3nk7.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <200203102132.g2ALWfr04155@wijiji.santafe.edu> <87it8339co.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200203111906.g2BJ67a04582@wijiji.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1015875396 2698 80.91.224.249 (11 Mar 2002 19:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kVb2-0000hP-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:36:36 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16kVcs-0004G0-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:38:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kVal-0007EP-00; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kVZs-0007BK-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:35:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.152] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b8) with ESMTP-TLS id 14011 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:22:32 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16kVZo-0004p1-00 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:35:20 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 In-Reply-To: <200203111906.g2BJ67a04582@wijiji.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:06:07 -0700 (MST)") Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:1863 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1863 >>>>> On Mon Mar 11, RMS writes: > That could be an ok solution if it really achieves the effect. But > why have the overhead of loading pcomplete just to get the same > results as before? It seems better just to revert the change; > people who want pcomplete behavior can rebind those characters to > run pcomplete easily enough. Mainly because people could then configure them back on. But it's fine with me if we revert. I was just hoping to promote pcomplete as a general-purpose completion library, reducing the amount of duplicated algorithms. John _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel