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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Awful completion buffer behaviour
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:35:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0fwoj8b.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6gspzmn.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:56:00 +0800")

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I agree that this new behavior is an unpleasant surprise for me.
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the month-long experiment
>> with turning this on by default.  Is it to decide whether it will stay
>> on in Emacs 29?  If so, the experiment can be terminated now: we will
>> not make this the default, certainly not in Emacs 29, and maybe not
>> even in Emacs 30.  It is too radical departure of age-old Emacs
>> behavior in the default completion commands.
>
> Thanks, will you mind if I install a change that documents the option
> in the NEWS entry and changes its default value to nil now?
>
> Thanks.

Oops, I pushed that by accident when pushing a fix to pgtkterm.c, but I
think it's appropriate anyway, so I'm not going to revert it unless
someone says so.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-22 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <878rwdtjum.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-12-22  3:10 ` Awful completion buffer behaviour Po Lu
2021-12-22  8:54   ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-22  9:25     ` Po Lu
2021-12-22 17:56       ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-22 10:39   ` Po Lu
2021-12-22 12:53   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-22 12:56     ` Po Lu
2021-12-22 13:35       ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-12-22 14:03         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-22 14:00       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-22 14:55         ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-12-22 17:40     ` Juri Linkov
2021-12-23  9:06       ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-23 17:27         ` Juri Linkov

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