From: Ingo Lohmar <i.lohmar@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: handling of completion table duplicates
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:28:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737qy7ika.fsf@acer.localhost.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06c2916e-6ff3-4c93-ae63-e50776de8085@default>
On Tue, Apr 05 2016 14:42 (-0700), Drew Adams wrote:
>> So I take it that the absence of any documentation on duplicate removal
>> is intentional (or at least it's no oversight) --- the question would
>> rather be "why should (or how even could) the handler remove them?"
>
> Not sure whom you're asking or quite what you are asking.
> What do you mean by "the handler"? And are you talking about
> vanilla Emacs? If so, it already removes duplicates.
I just summarized what I gather from this short thread. By "the
handler" I was referring to completing-read-default et al, who have to
handle a collection for completion.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-06 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-03 11:53 handling of completion table duplicates Ingo Lohmar
2016-04-03 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-03 14:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-03 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-05 20:29 ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-04-05 21:42 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-06 17:28 ` Ingo Lohmar [this message]
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