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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>,  me@eshelyaron.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 431f8ff1e38: * lisp/imenu.el: Support more values for imenu-flatten (bug#70846)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 09:10:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4jb0tuc4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86o798x5hz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 14 May 2024 09:38:32 +0300")

>> +(defcustom completion-allow-text-properties nil
>> +  "Non-nil means `choose-completion' should not discard text properties.
>> +This also affects `completing-read' and any of the functions that do
>> +minibuffer input with completion."
>
> This new user option should be announced in NEWS.
>
> I also wonder whether it should be a user option, i.e. is it
> reasonable that a user would like all of his/her completions to
> preserve text properties?  Stefan, WDYT?

I can't see how it can make sense as a user-option, no.  AFAICT it's
a hack for specific front-ends or specific backends (or combinations
thereof) to work around limitations in the completion API (or maybe
rather to allow abusing the completion API as a selection API 🙂).


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-14 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20240513065931.0D83AC12C31@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2024-05-13  9:22   ` master 431f8ff1e38: * lisp/imenu.el: Support more values for imenu-flatten (bug#70846) Eshel Yaron
2024-05-13 16:30     ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-14  6:08       ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-14  6:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-14 13:10           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2024-05-14 16:46             ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-14 20:58             ` Daniel Mendler via Emacs development discussions.
2024-05-14 23:26               ` FW: [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-05-15 16:51           ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-15 18:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-15 18:30             ` Eshel Yaron
2024-05-16  6:08               ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-16  9:51                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-17  6:48                   ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-17 15:36                     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-17 16:43                       ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-18 15:12                         ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-20  6:46                           ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-27 18:18                             ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-14  6:28                               ` Eshel Yaron
2024-07-14  6:53                                 ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-14 10:55                                   ` Eshel Yaron
2024-07-14 17:00                                     ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-16  6:57                                       ` Eshel Yaron
2024-08-07  6:51                                         ` Juri Linkov
2024-08-07  8:33                                           ` Eshel Yaron
2024-08-07 16:46                                             ` Juri Linkov
2024-08-09  6:59                                               ` Juri Linkov
2024-08-09  7:11                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-09 16:10                                                   ` Juri Linkov
2024-08-09 17:43                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-07  6:56                                         ` Completions group metadata [was: master 431f8ff1e38: * lisp/imenu.el: Support more values for imenu-flatten (bug#70846)] Juri Linkov
2024-08-09 16:16                                           ` Completions group metadata [ Juri Linkov
2024-08-14  1:41                                       ` master 431f8ff1e38: * lisp/imenu.el: Support more values for imenu-flatten (bug#70846) Stefan Monnier
2024-08-20 17:51                                         ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-14 15:26         ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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