From: Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Teach completion to insert a common prefix
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 00:09:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALTqLiaNUKp689-9ES3q-7zV7LASJpiWcdSc=nR3CMNJCJPpPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8VNCLRoQcvxWDPdLKb8b=8gX9gtXPF3ERh7qYHMhpsk2A@mail.gmail.com>
> All possible completions for -matching-lines- start with
> > list-matching-lines-. So there would be no harm in inserting "list" at
> > the start of the completion input. But Emacs does not do this.
>
> It does do that if you put the point at the start of line.
>
> Note that older versions of Emacs was also doing that even when point was
at the end of the line, as in Emacs 26.3
Do you know when that changed and why?
--
/Pierre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-09 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-07 20:38 Teach completion to insert a common prefix Spencer Baugh
2023-08-08 6:19 ` Yuri Khan
2023-08-09 4:09 ` Pierre Rouleau [this message]
2023-08-10 11:33 ` sbaugh
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