M-x menu-SPACE SPACE SPACE in master

M-x menu-SPACE SPACE SPACE in master

[chad]

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With a fresh-built master and emacs -Q, when I type "M-x menu<SPACE>
<SPACE> <SPACE>", the first space adds "-", the second adds "bar-", and the
third adds "-", giving me "menu-bar--" and shooting past my intended
destination "menu-bar-mode". Is this intentional, or perhaps a side-effect
of recent M-x changes?  Is this perhaps an artifact of the doubled dashes
coming after the single dash between menu and bar?

In that same emacs -Q, if I:

(defun menu-bar---foo ()
>   (interactive)
>   (message "Yo."))


Then space-completion in M-x continues from "menu-bar--" to "menu-bar---"
without showing any of the other options it's "completing past", so it
seems to be consistent.

If this is a long-standing behavior that I've just not noticed recently
(possible), I wonder if there's a way to disable it? If I press '?' instead
of the third space, I get a completion list that's in line with what I
expected from the third space, including the double-dash and single-dash
commands.

Thanks,
~Chad

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Re: M-x menu-SPACE SPACE SPACE in master

[Mathias Dahl]

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Seems to work as it should for tool-bar-mode. I noticed there are some
commands named menu-bar--XXX, could that be the reason it works
differently? It was a long time since I used Emacs without smex or
counsel-M-x...



On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 9:02 PM chad <yandros@gmail.com> wrote:

> With a fresh-built master and emacs -Q, when I type "M-x menu<SPACE>
> <SPACE> <SPACE>", the first space adds "-", the second adds "bar-", and the
> third adds "-", giving me "menu-bar--" and shooting past my intended
> destination "menu-bar-mode". Is this intentional, or perhaps a side-effect
> of recent M-x changes?  Is this perhaps an artifact of the doubled dashes
> coming after the single dash between menu and bar?
>
> In that same emacs -Q, if I:
>
> (defun menu-bar---foo ()
>>   (interactive)
>>   (message "Yo."))
>
>
> Then space-completion in M-x continues from "menu-bar--" to "menu-bar---"
> without showing any of the other options it's "completing past", so it
> seems to be consistent.
>
> If this is a long-standing behavior that I've just not noticed recently
> (possible), I wonder if there's a way to disable it? If I press '?' instead
> of the third space, I get a completion list that's in line with what I
> expected from the third space, including the double-dash and single-dash
> commands.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Chad
>

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