From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Re: completing-read return meta-information?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:13:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a8s67c9a.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv612vzxwz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:45:15 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>> Why can't you make completion-try-completion return an absolute filename
>>>> when there's only one match?
>>> The string returned from completion-try-completion is displayed in the
>>> minibuffer, as the completion prefix.
>
> That's right (tho only once it's unique).
>
>>> I don't want that to be the display string.
>
> I think that's a mistake.
The user can use `locate-file', if they care about the directories.
We could enhance that completion table function to deal with duplicate
filenames.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-28 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-16 13:57 completing-read return meta-information? Stephen Leake
2015-09-16 15:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-16 17:06 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-16 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-16 17:45 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-17 1:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-17 12:52 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-17 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-17 18:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-18 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-21 16:46 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-21 19:12 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-21 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-22 15:21 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-26 10:54 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-27 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-28 5:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-28 15:59 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-28 16:13 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-09-28 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-28 5:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
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