Re: Comint Completion Broken

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:
>>   Typing a SPC deletes the completion window, typing anything else
>>   leaves the completion window in place.  [This seems like reasonable
>>   behavior -- fairly often I _want_ to leave the window in place, so I
>>   can select it and do more advanced searching or whatever.]
>
> The window used to get deleted automatically on key events, e.g.
>
>      u p TAB (window appears) t (window disappears) TAB
>  =>  uptime
>
> But that was apparently an accidental feature, and it caused a bug when
> selecting completion candidates with mouse-1 in the window:

My memory is a bit fuzzy, but as I recall, the "really old" behavior
(what was in Emacs 21) was more or less the same the current behavior.

I'm not entirely sure of the whole ugly history after that, but for a
while, I think pcomplete was used for comint completion, which had the
"window always gets deleted" behavior.  [but I can't find any record of
this in the  ChangeLog, so maybe it's just an illusion I had???]

Whether or not it's due to pcomplete, until fairly recently comint
seemed to be doing the "window always gets deleted" thing, which was
extremely annoying; I'm assuming that's what Nick fixed.

Anyway, the current behavior seems both user-friendly and compatible
with Emacs 21.  So I'd say things are in a good state.

-Miles
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