From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: mail@daniel-mendler.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 55205@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates
Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 15:17:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835ymp78hl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnf5mpt4.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 01 May 2022 13:53:59 +0200)
> Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
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> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 13:53:59 +0200
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 55205@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:
>
> > The function completion--replace mutates the replacement string, it
> > strips the text properties.
>
> I don't think that's, strictly speaking, illegal. :-)
>
> Anyway, I agree that it's unfortunate that completion destructively
> modifies the strings it's handed, and this has been discussed
> extensively over the years (and there's probably several bug reports
> open about that, although I can't find them now).
>
> I don't remember why we're doing that, but I seem to vaguely recall that
> there's a reason... Anybody?
I don't understand how can completion work in general without
destructively modifying strings. Isn't that obvious?
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-01 8:27 bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 11:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-01 20:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02 2:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 9:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 21:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-02 16:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02 16:38 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:48 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 16:57 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 18:35 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 12:40 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 12:54 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 13:19 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 13:21 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 12:50 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 17:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 17:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-01 18:27 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 18:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 19:01 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 19:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 20:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-01 20:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-01 21:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-05-01 21:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 6:31 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-02 8:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 9:00 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-03 10:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-04 7:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-04 8:24 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-04 8:51 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 8:49 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 9:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 9:57 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 10:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-02 10:17 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-01 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 18:06 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-05-02 0:34 ` Richard Stallman
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