From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 48356@debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>,
JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: bug#48356: 28.0.50; choose-completion discards the suffix after the completion boundary
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:00:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f353cfe-b2d7-43ab-bc65-37a0d306c042@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsezu54r4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 10/04/2024 05:38, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> ...which translates to "/" because of the double slash -- the filesystem
>>>> root directory (*). But that's the same data which would be used by any
>>>> other proposed solution, too.
>>> More or less, tho the "ideal" solution is to do that in the
>>> completion-style code, which has a bit more knowledge about it.
>> Doing it in completion-style, though, would either require a relatively
>> awkward change in most/all styles (e.g. the "new dynamic variable" route),
>> or a more straightforward change in styles together with an incompatible
>> change in completion-all-completions.
>
> Yup, hence the quotes around "ideal".
>
>> So on balance, would you say it's a good idea to a) use this approach in
>> minibuffer-completion-help, b) create a named function for it, for other
>> callers to take advantage of it as well?
>
> Yes, while waiting for a new API it seems like a good stop gap.
>
>> Looks like completion--merge-suffix is the helper to use.
>
> Yup.
>
>>> In theory this approach can "do the wrong thing" with some completion
>>> styles, but AFAIK they haven't been written yet. 🙂
>> So you figure that such theoretical style would return adjusted base-suffix
>> in -all-completions method, not just in -try-completion?
>
> A completion style could make use of (and list) things after the
> boundary. E.g. completing a file name like
>
> foo/ba<|>ar/baz
>
> could decide to list all the files that match
>
> *f*o*o*/*b*a*a*r*/*b*a*z*
>
> in which case the "end boundary" of the `completion-all-completions`
> output should not be the `cdr` of the `completion-boundaries`.
>
> I wouldn't worry about it, tho.
All right, please see the new function completion-base-suffix added in
0288bc6c949. Any docstring improvements (and others) are welcome.
I guess we should also mention it in NEWS...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-11 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-11 17:23 bug#48356: 28.0.50; choose-completion discards the suffix after the completion boundary Daniel Mendler
2022-03-13 17:56 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-13 20:35 ` bug#48356: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-14 3:10 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-14 18:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-14 20:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-03-15 2:14 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-03-15 7:53 ` Juri Linkov
2022-03-20 20:34 ` Juri Linkov
2024-04-08 21:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-08 22:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-08 23:50 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-10 1:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-10 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-11 1:00 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2024-04-11 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-11 10:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-11 21:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-14 16:44 ` Juri Linkov
2024-04-14 23:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-18 14:25 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-04-20 0:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-04 2:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-09 2:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
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