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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233328 Archived-At: > As long as Emacs can't read our minds, there will be no good-enough > completion mechanism. And even then... we are dealing with the Emacs > user base, you know :-) Yes. Not only are users different but they use different contexts, and the same user has different preferences in different contexts. And even when user A's preference for a particular context is Preference-AA, s?he can sometimes want to change things dynamically - in this case, change sort ordering. A default, context-specific user preference-driven sort order is fine, but a user can still want to change orders on the fly. That can happen, among other reasons, due to what s?he is currently typing as an input pattern.