From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:48:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0c88192c-3c33-46ed-95cb-b4c6928016e3@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="120781"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, pcr910303@icloud.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 06 06:48:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jWBzG-000VGQ-R1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 06:48:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59028 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWBzF-0006lJ-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 00:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48782) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWBye-0006Gt-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2020 00:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jWByd-0001tN-O6; Wed, 06 May 2020 00:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jWByc-0006vN-Kr; Wed, 06 May 2020 00:48:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Tue, 5 May 2020 09:25:57 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249070 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > You understand that substring completion fails as soon as the term is > too generic? e.g "string", "regexp" or "list", the list is just a lot > of noise. How about implementing the kind of completion (or, more generally, function discovery) that you would like to use? People can tweak each others' attempts and produce something that a lot of users would like. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)