From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Cc: 74772@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74772: [PATCH] Consistently add wildcards for completion-pcm-leading-wildcard
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:16:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ed218kg5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ier34iv483r.fsf@janestreet.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:05:12 -0500)
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Cc: 74772@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:05:12 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> >> Cc: 74772@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> >> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:14:15 -0500
> >>
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >>
> >> >> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> >> >> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:48:23 -0500
> >> >> From: Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >> >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >> >>
> >> >> (defcustom completion-pcm-leading-wildcard nil
> >> >> - "If non-nil, partial-completion completes as if there's a leading wildcard.
> >> >> + "If non-nil, partial-completion adds a leading wildcard for each word.
> >> >
> >> > The modified wording is misleading, because it says something that
> >> > doesn't really happen (as the rest of the doc string reveals).
> >>
> >> Okay, how about:
> >>
> >> If non-nil, PCM completes as if there's a wildcard before each word.
> >
> > Much better, thanks. You could even say
> >
> > If non-nil, partial-completion behaves as if each word is preceded by wildcard.
>
> Ok, updated patch:
Stefan, is this patch okay with you? Any comments?
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-10 17:48 bug#74772: [PATCH] Consistently add wildcards for completion-pcm-leading-wildcard Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-12-10 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-10 19:14 ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-12-10 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-10 20:05 ` Spencer Baugh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-12-21 9:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-12-21 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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