From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 87e422f: Beef up the Emacs string utility set a bit Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:11:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87tusec19r.fsf@gnus.org> References: <20201221175345.27592.89597@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20201221175347.9F1B820B76@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87eejjdn8e.fsf@gnus.org> <87a6u7dmnw.fsf@gnus.org> <87blemdibm.fsf@tcd.ie> <5341fc07-d48e-afed-67cc-606b22649e8c@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23642"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 21 22:13:35 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1krSUp-00062q-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:13:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36510 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krSUo-0006ZN-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55904) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krST9-0005VM-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2]:34790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krST8-0007Y8-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:11:51 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID :In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=THwyWXyse5PlIzy+IEiazETsRFZxSLjn6lNGi+y0PqM=; b=B2OduG5j3nBMk7w3lys7iwiZQ0 aU5jjgyEK5G0CfMXUg+LiTP+GPEwbeCuCtgmhq4o0hfRqmnzvsqjA1zfsXvHlGw3YWpTbOGRBsfhE di1T/jGlbT90d6mRsULNnHzaIe6NtTlcxuASLqAmwc07FRoeeswB5MF9HvFoFhM1Oqrw=; Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=xo) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1krST3-0004v4-Ix; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:11:47 +0100 X-Now-Playing: William Basinski's _The Disintegration Loops_: "DLP 1.1" In-Reply-To: <5341fc07-d48e-afed-67cc-606b22649e8c@gmail.com> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel"'s message of "Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:38:45 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2; envelope-from=larsi@gnus.org; helo=quimby.gnus.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261438 Archived-At: Cl=C3=A9ment Pit-Claudel writes: >> s-shared-start is already covered by try-completion, right? Which has >> various uses, e.g. in project--read-file-cpd-relative. > > It's also covered by compare-strings, but both need a bit of setup to > do the same as s-shared-start, so a wrapper can be useful (for > example, it's easy to forget to reset > completion-regexp-list). Additionally, discovering the right function > to call can be hard (I hadn't realized that try-completion could be > used for this, and neither had the authors or s.el). Perhaps adding something like shared-start would be a good addition for seq? The s.el semantics seem a bit unclear -- do "Foobar" and "foozot" share a prefix? Adding to seq (with a predicate to compare characters) would be nice... --=20 (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no