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So it is impossible for a user to know what kind of PREDICATEs to define,=20 i.e., what kinds of completion candidates are to be accepted as arg and tested. Usually (e.g. for `completing-read') we tell users that PREDICATE is as specified for `try-completion' etc. That info is missing here. In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2019-04-13 Repository revision: fd1b34bfba8f3f6298df47c8e10b61530426f749 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.17134 Configured using: `configure --without-dbus --host=3Dx86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=3D-O2 -static -g3''