From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:29:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506290350.j5T3o7c25749@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506300229.j5U2TrL01627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120168997 32141 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2005 22:03:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 00:03:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do77I-00009u-AY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:02:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do7Fc-00060E-Kk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do70l-0007YD-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do70S-0007Tx-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do70P-0007K8-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Do6i0-0002Nr-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Do6bK-0001VO-LV; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:29:38 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200506300229.j5U2TrL01627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:29:53 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39985 Yes, but let me first make sure I understand. Is the reason that we do not want _any_ symbol as car of the list that forbidding _any_ symbol as car of the list actually seems _more natural_ than just forbidding lambda? Right. It is not clean to make an exception for "lambda". It is clean to make an exception for lists of symbols. I agree, test-completion should be fixed. Would you like to fix that? There are several ways to do that. The easiest one would probably be to make assoc-string be able to handle symbols as well as strings. But maybe that would be too radical? I think that would be ok. Since its basic purpose is to operate on strings, it could operate on symbols as if they were strings.