Re: project--completing-read-strict breaks ada-mode project completion table

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Commit 8f9d93f3054 (Dmitry Gutov   2018-12-29 415) breaks my ada-mode
> completion table.
>
> That commit modifies the completion table by first calling the actual
> completion table to get all the file names, then removing any common
> prefix directory, then calling completing read with that file list.
>
> This violates assumptions made within the ada-mode completion table, and
> breaks the expected completion style - it requires typing the remaining
> directory names first; the ada-mode completion table allows completing
> on the base name only.
>
> I can understand the motivation behind removing common prefixes, but the
> proper way to do that is to implement a completion style and/or table
> that does that, and make that style/table the default for projects.
>
> The ada-mode completion style and table eliminates all directories from
> the visible completion string, except the minimum needed to make the
> string unique. I think this is a better solution to the problem;
> project.el should allow the user to choose their prefered solution, by
> choosing a completion style and table.
>
> To make my source available for experimenting with, I'd like to create
> several new ELPA packages; I sent a separate email about that.

These are now in the ELPA master branch:

elpa/packages/ada-mode/ada-project.el
elpa/packages/ada-mode/env-package.el
elpa/packages/path-iterator/path-iterator.el
elpa/packages/uniquify-files/uniquify-files.el

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