From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: scratch/backend-completion 1af23aade6f: More tweaks to external-completion.el after Stefan's comments
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2022 23:23:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv359vzto2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221203233625.5BBB0C00B0F@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> ("João Távora"'s message of "Sat, 3 Dec 2022 18:36:25 -0500 (EST)")
> +Despite the original authors's best efforts,
> +TRY-COMPLETION-FUNCTION is still a poorly understood
> +implementation detail. If you understand what it's for, you
FWIW, I'm not really the original author of try-completion.
More specifically, the `try-completion` function itself predates my
involvement with Emacs, and its generalization in
`partial-completion-mode` as well. I do take responsability for
`completion-try-completion`, admittedly, where I tried to give an
"official" interface to that operation, but I was just trying to
preserve existing semantics.
Stefan
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2022-12-04 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-12-04 9:45 ` scratch/backend-completion 1af23aade6f: More tweaks to external-completion.el after Stefan's comments João Távora
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