From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: sbaugh@catern.com
Cc: 62700@debbugs.gnu.org, Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Subject: bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 21:30:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864jpqdwrs.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfdbmmmh.fsf@catern.com> (sbaugh@catern.com's message of "Fri, 07 Apr 2023 21:02:47 +0000 (UTC)")
> Here's one heuristic which works decently well:
>
> The reasoning here is that if completion returns the full string which
> should be in the minibuffer, then we should replace the minibuffer with
> that string, so base-suffix should be "". But if we're completing only
> part of the string, base-suffix should be something else. AFAIK only
> file completion falls into the latter category, and it always completes
> just one component of a path, so I set base-suffix to not include the
> component of the path that point is in, so that completion replaces it
> entirely.
>
> I think this is basically a satisfactory heuristic, although I'm sure
> I'm missing some categories of completion besides file completion which
> complete only part of the string.
Thanks, this looks like a satisfactory heuristic indeed. It just needs
more testing for different categories of completion.
> Regardless of whether this is a satisfactory heuristic, it's revealed to
> me an unexpected behavior of a solution to this bug using base-suffix,
> which may or may not be fine: Point is moved to the end of the
> completion inserted.
>
> So e.g. if point is at | and I'm completing |-path, then when I choose
> the completion load-path, point will be at load-path| rather than
> load|-path. This isn't a huge issue but it might be a little annoying?
> I don't know if there's any way to fix this.
Maybe you could find another heuristic for insertion of completion?
The code is located in the same function 'minibuffer-completion-help':
(if (and (stringp start) (stringp end))
(progn
(delete-minibuffer-contents)
(insert start choice)
;; Keep point after completion before suffix
(save-excursion (insert end)))
Currently it keeps point before the suffix.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-06 17:56 bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer Spencer Baugh
2023-04-06 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-06 18:58 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-06 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-06 20:42 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-06 18:55 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-06 19:22 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-07 16:37 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-07 21:02 ` sbaugh
2023-04-08 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-08 10:58 ` sbaugh
2023-04-08 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-08 18:36 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-08 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-09 16:40 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-09 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-08 18:30 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
[not found] ` <ierbk6lup79.fsf@janestreet.com>
2024-04-07 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
[not found] <b921ea5c-71a2-4e8f-b1cf-dd26831f8104@email.android.com>
2023-04-10 18:20 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-20 16:52 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-20 18:18 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-20 18:46 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-20 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-21 18:56 ` sbaugh
2023-04-22 10:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-22 12:57 ` sbaugh
2023-04-22 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-22 21:38 ` sbaugh
2023-04-23 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-23 11:48 ` sbaugh
2023-04-24 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02 15:13 ` sbaugh
2023-05-02 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-08 15:48 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-08 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-03 0:58 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-04 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-10 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-12 18:27 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-13 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 16:54 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-13 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 20:59 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-14 17:32 ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-03 17:37 ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-04 0:30 ` sbaugh
2023-09-04 6:51 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-14 7:39 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-15 17:42 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-20 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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