From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Mendler <daniel@mendler.net>
Cc: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recommendation for CAPF setup when you don't know completion string in advance
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 11:57:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv97pnu6c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488b4688-239f-4915-a1fa-a1c3764234d1@mendler.net> (Daniel Mendler's message of "Tue, 11 May 2021 16:37:42 +0200")
> ;; XXX There is a small bug here, depending on interpretation. When
> ;; completing "~/emacs/master/li|/calc" where "|" is the cursor,
> ;; then the returned candidate only includes the prefix
> ;; "~/emacs/master/lisp/", but not the suffix "/calc". Default
> ;; completion has the same problem when selecting in the
> ;; *Completions* buffer.
>
> Is it non-intentional that the suffix is thrown away?
I think the answer depends on the completion-style. IIRC some
completion styles do that on purpose (in order to preserve/reproduce
the behavior of earlier completion code), whereas I seem to remember
a few cases where we may do something like that not on purpose (rather
because of a bug, or out of laziness).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-03 22:23 Recommendation for CAPF setup when you don't know completion string in advance JD Smith
2021-04-03 23:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-04 2:52 ` JD Smith
2021-04-04 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-04 15:29 ` JD Smith
2021-05-11 3:33 ` JD Smith
2021-05-11 4:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-11 13:42 ` JD Smith
2021-05-11 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-11 14:37 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-11 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-05-11 16:10 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-11 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
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