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From: Raoul Comninos <revrari@mweb.co.za>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sole Completion bug?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:39:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z2taif4.fsf@mweb.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9aukma3.fsf@kyleam.com> (message from Kyle Meyer on Sun, 14 Feb 2021 23:06:12 -0500)

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> Hmm, isn't this just following the built-in completing-read's behavior?
>
>   (completing-read
>    "Prompt: "
>    (list "Chris Bell"
>          "Phone Chris Bell"
>          "Meeting with Chris Bell"))
>
>   ;; `C<tab>` => Chris Bell -> `<tab>` => Chris Bell [Sole completion]

You may be right. To find all entries with "Chris Bell" I need to add an
asterisk before "Chris" as in "*Chris". So the search is based on
wildcards not regex. Any idea how I may change this behaviour to search
by regex?

-- 
Kindest regards,
Raoul Comninos


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-15  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-13  5:28 Sole Completion bug? Raoul Comninos
2021-02-15  4:06 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-15  7:39   ` Raoul Comninos [this message]
2021-02-16  3:45     ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-16  6:58       ` Raoul Comninos

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