From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp-complete-symbol Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:41:39 +0100 Message-ID: <43A9CC13.7060208@student.lu.se> References: <877j9yjfum.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135201343 24637 80.91.229.2 (21 Dec 2005 21:42:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 21 22:42:20 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpBix-0000ep-Rd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:42:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpBjv-0008Sm-Fa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpBjk-0008R6-E2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:43:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpBjf-0008QE-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpBjf-0008Q7-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EpBn1-0000NW-RV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:46:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43A921540003F2D4; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:41:45 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <877j9yjfum.fsf-monnier+emacs@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:48182 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >The following change has some annoying side-effect: > >2005-12-10 Kevin Rodgers > > * emacs-lisp/lisp.el (lisp-complete-symbol): Regenerate the > completion list, even after a partial completion has been > inserted in the current buffer. If there are more than 1 > completion, redisplay the *Completions* buffer; if the > completion is unique, delete the *Completions* window. > >The problem is that it changed the behavior such that the *completions* >buffer is shown after every completion. Before that change, the >*completions* buffer was only shown if the completion failed because >of ambiguity. > >I'm not sure what this was supposed to fix, but I think it was not the right >fix, > > I believe it was to display the correct list in the *Completions* buffer if the user changed the input string to complete.