From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Cc: 62700@debbugs.gnu.org, Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>
Subject: bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:18:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868rema032.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ierfs8uzebf.fsf@janestreet.com> (Spencer Baugh's message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:52:20 -0400")
>>>> It just needs more testing for different categories of completion.
>>>
>>> Which categories do you have in mind?
>>
>> Actually, I can't find categories where it could fail.
>> So your patch looks safe to push.
>
> Can we go ahead and push it to Emacs master, then? I will work on the
> changing-only-new-code backport for Emacs 29 as Eli requested.
But your patch changes only new code.
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I will try. Although this is a case where completion-base-position feels
>>> more suited than completion-base-affixes...
>>
>> Can you get the same info about positions by calculating the
>> lengths of prefix/choice/suffix?
>
> Hm I have thought about it but I can't see a simple heuristic.
>
> It's not actually clear what behavior we want, anyway. When TAB
> completes a string fully, it sends point to the end of the buffer. This
> happens even if completion-cycle-threshold is non-nil, and
> completion-cycle-threashold feels like a pretty similar feature to
> minibuffer-{previous,next}-completion. So maybe that's correct for us to
> do here too?
>
> But a different behavior feels like it could also makes sense. For
> example, if I'm completing from ffap-|-path (| is point), I'm just
> cycling between ffap-bib-path, ffap-c++-path, ffap-c-path, and it feels
> like as I cycle through those, point should stay right before "-path",
> like ffap-bib|-path, ffap-c++|-path, ffap-c|-path. No idea how to
> achieve this behavior though.
This also makes sense: ffap-|bib-path, ffap-|c++-path, ffap-|c-path.
I tried it with this tentative patch and it feels quite natural,
so maybe could be turned into an option:
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el
index a6af65dfa14..733f7710378 100644
--- a/lisp/minibuffer.el
+++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el
@@ -2366,6 +2371,7 @@ minibuffer-completion-help
(let* ((start (or start (minibuffer--completion-prompt-end)))
(end (or end (point-max)))
(string (buffer-substring start end))
+ (pos (1- (point)))
(md (completion--field-metadata start))
(completions (completion-all-completions
string
@@ -2493,7 +2503,8 @@ minibuffer-completion-help
(delete-minibuffer-contents)
(insert start choice)
;; Keep point after completion before suffix
- (save-excursion (insert end)))
+ (save-excursion (insert end))
+ (move-to-column pos))
(unless (or (zerop (length prefix))
(equal prefix
(buffer-substring-no-properties
> Anyway, the behavior with my earlier patch now feels fine to me, I don't
> think we need any improvements to point's behavior for now.
Maybe your patch still could be pushed to emacs-29 because it fixes
the new feature.
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[not found] <b921ea5c-71a2-4e8f-b1cf-dd26831f8104@email.android.com>
2023-04-10 18:20 ` bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer Juri Linkov
2023-04-20 16:52 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-04-20 18:18 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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
2023-04-06 17:56 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
[not found] ` <ierbk6lup79.fsf@janestreet.com>
2024-04-07 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
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