From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:42:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506290350.j5T3o7c25749@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506300229.j5U2TrL01627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506301828.j5UISL305879@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120161512 12930 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2005 19:58:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:58:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 21:58:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5Au-0006v1-P3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:58:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5JD-0001n2-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5D3-0000bh-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5Cu-0000XB-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5Cu-0000PS-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:00:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Do50c-0007t4-8f; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:47:38 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794122CEA9F; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:42:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7884AC00A; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:42:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8B22BE6A42; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:42:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200506301828.j5UISL305879@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:28:21 -0500 (CDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.847, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39973 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39973 > I am not arguing for allowing lists of symbols rather than lists of > strings, but mixed lists of strings and symbols _are_ currently allowed > and try-completion and all-completions now nearly everywhere treat symbols > as being completely equivalent to (symbol-name 'symbol) since the > following change made relatively recently (I thought we were in a feature > freeze, but anyway): I understand that. I was just arguing against that recent change. > I don't like the idea of adding "" at the beginning of a completion table. > Here I have a good reason, which is that it changes the behavior: > (try-completion "" '("aaa" "aab" "aac")) => "aa" > (try-completion "" '("" "aaa" "aab" "aac")) => "" > Of course, the person consing "" to the front of the completion table > will have to write his code to expect the second answer. What if the code *needs* the first answer? Stefan