Re: change to try-completion behavior in 21.3?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> Why should it ever return the capital letter W?
>> Because in your completion table, you have "W".
> "w" was also in the table.

Good point.  Could you give us more detail about your context: why do you
have such a table with two redundant entries and why do you care which of
the two is returned?

> This change

>   revision 1.237
>   date: 2002-04-09 19:28:42 +0000;  author: monnier;  state: Exp; lines: +89 -47 [...]
>   (Ftry_completion): Allow lambda forms and lists of strings for
>   `alist'.
>   Short-circuit the search as soon as it "failed". [...]

> added this piece of code (approximately)

>   if (matchsize <= SCHARS (string)
>       && matchcount > 1)
>     /* No need to look any further.  */
>     break;

> When completion-ignore-case is t this doesn't necessarily find the
> best match _including case_ (AFAICS).

Yes, I'd completely forgotten about this one ;-)


        Stefan