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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: all-completions DTWT for "" and non-nil HIDE-SPACES
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 11:27:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzmhm5nz2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MEEKKIABFKKDFJMPIOEBCEGMDBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:27:29 -0700
> 
> To me, the following behavior, with non-nil HIDE-SPACES argument, is a bug:
> 
>  (all-completions "" '((" a")("b")("c)) nil t) returns
>  ("b" "c), not (" a" "b" "c")
> 
> This behavior is very old (at least back to Emacs 20), but I doubt that any
> existing code depends on it (I have no proof).

Actually, I have a proof to the contrary: this feature is used by
buffer-name completions: buffers whose names begin with a space aren't
shown (a.k.a. hidden from the naive users).

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-13  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-12 21:27 all-completions DTWT for "" and non-nil HIDE-SPACES Drew Adams
2006-05-12 21:37 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-12 22:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-13  0:26   ` Drew Adams
2006-05-13  6:35     ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-15 17:20       ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-05-13 14:57     ` Drew Adams
2006-05-13  8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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