From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, 9591@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:35:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1R83r4-0004ox-BF@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvoby8cdey.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:18:30 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:18:30 -0400
> Cc: 9591@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > If I type C-x k mes TAB, it completes to ` *message-viewer RMAIL'.
>
> Hmm... that's probably a bug of the `substring' completion-style
But `substring' is not in the default value of completion-styles. So
how does it come into play here?
By the way, this documentation of the `emacs22' style:
Prefix completion that only operates on the text before point.
I.e. when completing "foo_bar" (where _ is the position of point),
it will consider all completions candidates matching the glob
pattern "foo*" and will add back "bar" to the end of it.
and a similar doc string of `basic', are either inaccurate/wrong (it
never tells explicitly whether the "glob pattern" is interpreted as
starting at the beginning of each candidate, but if it doesn't, why
talk about "prefix"?), or there's a bug in the implementation of these
styles, because I just customized completion-styles to include only
one style, either `emacs22' or `basic', and I still see that "C-x b
Mes TAB" completes to "*Messages*". Did I do something wrong?
If these completion styles are _supposed_ to match the "glob pattern"
not only at the beginning, then we should have an additional style
that does.
I think that fixing this will go a long way towards resolving
Richard's problem, because he will then be able to customize
completion-styles and have what he wants: the traditional, less
"imaginative", but much more predictable style of completion.
P.S. FWIW, I have no problems with the default completion operation,
but that's me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 5:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-24 12:28 bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion Richard Stallman
2011-09-24 18:44 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-24 23:52 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 0:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-25 8:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-25 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 17:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-25 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-25 1:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-25 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-29 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-29 22:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-30 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-30 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-30 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-01 14:05 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-01 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-01 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-02 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-26 7:56 ` Stephen Berman
2011-09-26 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-27 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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