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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Herbert Euler <herberteuler@hotmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two problems of completion
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:20:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvej7t3va5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY143-W271E6DA6CB49DBBE037031DAD80@phx.gbl> (Herbert Euler's message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:57:29 +0800")

> 1. Special case: the string before completion is the empty string "".

> In this case, completion--try-word-completion will see a completion
> available, i.e. ("" . 0), and then try firstly completing with " " (""
> + " ") and then "-" ("" + "-").  Partial completion often (e.g. in a
> command execution context, i.e. typing M-x then typing SPC) returns a
> result of ("-" . 0), make a completion available.

> I think when the user press SPC directly in such a case, it means that
> the user wants to see a list of available completions, instead of
> wanting a partially completed word.  So this case might need special
> handling.

I've installed a workaround for this situation: if the minibuffer is
empty, and SPC tries to add a " " or a "-", it turns off
partial-completion while doing it.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-30  2:57 Two problems of completion Herbert Euler
2008-04-30  3:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-30 22:01 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-23 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-05-23 16:12   ` Herbert Euler

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