From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
Cc: 69501@debbugs.gnu.org, me@eshelyaron.com
Subject: bug#69501: 30.0.50; customize-mode error with substring completion style
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:26:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h6h9b4o6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83151b52-44e8-44bb-be38-a38b709135d5@gmail.com> (message from Mauro Aranda on Tue, 5 Mar 2024 09:36:01 -0300)
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 09:36:01 -0300
> Cc: 69501@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
>
> On 4/3/24 10:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:59:48 +0100
> >> From: Eshel Yaron via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >>
> >> With both Emacs 29.2 and with the current master:
> >>
> >> 1. emacs -Q
> >> 2. (setq completion-styles '(substring))
> >> 3. C-u M-x customize-mode TAB
> >> 4. "Assertion failed: (stringp suffix)"
> >>
> >> I not sure exactly why this error occurs, but IIUC it has to do with the
> >> fact that customize-mode let-binds completion-regexp-list. I suspect
> >> that the substring completion style doesn't handle that correctly.
> >>
> >> In general, let-binding completion-regexp-list around completing-read is
> >> not a great idea IMO because it affects recursive minibuffers as well.
> >> So perhaps the best solution is to avoid doing that in customize-mode,
> >> and to rely only on the predicate argument of completing-read instead?
> >
> > Stefan and Mauro, any suggestions?
>
> I took a quick look, but I don't know how "relying on the predicate
> argument of completing-read" looks in practice. It seems I have
> forgotten how to use the completion functions (if I ever knew how to use
> them at all). Hopefully Stefan will be of more help.
Stefan?
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-02 8:59 bug#69501: 30.0.50; customize-mode error with substring completion style Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-04 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-05 12:36 ` Mauro Aranda
2024-03-14 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-03-14 18:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-15 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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