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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bind non-essential in pcomplete to prevent tramp error
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:45:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpp6i5dw.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbn6icmqb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:27:40 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> !       (let* ((non-essential t)
>> !              pcomplete-stub
>>   	     pcomplete-seen pcomplete-norm-func
>>   	     pcomplete-args pcomplete-last pcomplete-index
>>   	     (pcomplete-autolist pcomplete-autolist)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Is it OK to install the patch in the emacs-25 branch?
>
> Looks wrong.  Why would you consider this to be non-essential?

Have you read the scenario presented by Jürgen? How would you solve this
differently?

`non-essential' was invented for cases like this: "It can be used to
prevent Tramp from ... displaying possible completions before the user
even asked for it."

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-13 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-13 10:29 Bind non-essential in pcomplete to prevent tramp error Michael Albinus
2016-03-13 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 18:05   ` John Wiegley
2016-03-13 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-13 18:25   ` John Wiegley
2016-03-13 22:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-13 23:02       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14  0:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-14  2:04           ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-13 18:45   ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2016-03-14  0:07     ` Stefan Monnier

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