From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fix for bug 10994 breaks ido customizations in major way Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 12:35:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87a9o7rsan.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87txmfyb9n.fsf@gmail.com> <87vc6vulvo.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367922966 8496 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2013 10:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 10:36:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 07 12:36:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UZfFc-0001dn-9j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 12:36:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZfFb-0000BD-Qt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 06:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZfFX-0000B8-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 06:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZfFW-00038O-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 06:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZfFV-00038K-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 06:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UZfFU-0001XS-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 12:35:56 +0200 Original-Received: from 149.red-83-40-116.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.40.116.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 May 2013 12:35:56 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 149.red-83-40-116.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 May 2013 12:35:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 149.red-83-40-116.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:orAHrsKnS1I8mFCHZWueidVZQBw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159389 Archived-At: Vitalie Spinu writes: > >> Currently > >> > >> (let ((t1 (propertize "aaa" 'aaa 12)) > >> (t2 (propertize "aaa" 'aaa 11))) > >> (ido-completing-read "?: " (list t1 t2 "sfd"))) > >> > >> works as expected. And the above patch breaks that. > > > That would be a horrible UI. Luckily AFAICT, it hasn't happened. > > Not the best UI, but definitely not horrible, users can distinguish 2-3 > strings on very rare occasions. 2-3 identical strings? really? how? > It makes implementation much faster and > solves a lot of hustle for lazy programmers:) Speaking as an user, I'll say that ido is protecting users from sloppy programmers.