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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completion-cycle-threshold and a suggestion
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 20:57:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1vd4rc0c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xbai7hmx6l60.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Fri, 21 May 2010 21:43:03 +0100")

> The current completion cycle has this issue, for example, assume there
> are two possible completions 'feature' and 'feature-old', feature-old is
> seen first. This is counter-intuitive to the behaviour without
> completion cycle.

I don't understand.  AFAIK the completion-cycle code is careful to order
the options using a heuristic based on the length of the completions
(choosing shorter ones first).

So are you saying that in your experience, the heuristic gives bad
results, or that the heuristic somehow was not applied?


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-22  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21 20:43 completion-cycle-threshold and a suggestion Leo
2010-05-22  0:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-05-22  1:34   ` Leo
2010-05-22 12:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-22 20:19       ` Leo
2010-05-23 13:16         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24  3:04     ` Stefan Monnier

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