From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:56:10 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200506290356.j5T3uAe25752@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120017627 12074 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2005 04:00:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:00:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 06:00:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnTk9-0003LF-5O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:00:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnTs7-0002Hm-GB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnTlb-0007ZK-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnTlU-0007VS-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnTlS-0007SV-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnTmb-0007qk-8v; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:02:41 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5T3vvCK023388; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:57:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j5T3uAe25752; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:56:10 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) 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:39860 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39860 Richard Stallman wrote: The problem is that try-completion and friends try to handle both lists of symbols and anonymous lambda expressions. Looking at the code, I don't think they do. It does not try to handle a list of symbols--and, because of the conflict you mentioned, it should not try. I think we should document that a simple list of symbols is NOT allowed, but that you can add "" as the first element to make that list into a legitimate completion table. But what about the other problem I mentioned. Should `test-completion' not one way or the other be made consistent with `try-completion' and `all-completions'. Kim adapted the latter two to handle symbols in alists and hash tables, but not test-completion. Thereby, the former symmetry between the three is gone. Sincerely, Luc.