* bug#50583: 27.2; test-completion should return non-nil
@ 2021-09-14 13:25 Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-14 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2021-09-14 13:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 50583
In the following code, I assume that `test-completion' should return a
non-‘nil’ value because "foo" is a valid completion alternative.
(test-completion
"foo"
'("foobar" "bar" "barfoo"))
=> nil
(try-completion
"foo"
'("foobar" "bar" "barfoo"))
=> "foobar"
#+begin_quote
-- Function: test-completion string collection &optional predicate
This function returns non-‘nil’ if STRING is a valid completion
alternative specified by COLLECTION and PREDICATE. The arguments
are the same as in ‘try-completion’. For instance, if COLLECTION
is a list of strings, this is true if STRING appears in the list
and PREDICATE is satisfied.
This function uses ‘completion-regexp-list’ in the same way that
‘try-completion’ does.
If PREDICATE is non-‘nil’ and if COLLECTION contains several
strings that are equal to each other, as determined by
‘compare-strings’ according to ‘completion-ignore-case’, then
PREDICATE should accept either all or none of them. Otherwise, the
return value of ‘test-completion’ is essentially unpredictable.
If COLLECTION is a function, it is called with three arguments, the
values STRING, PREDICATE and ‘lambda’; whatever it returns,
‘test-completion’ returns in turn.
#+end_quote
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* bug#50583: 27.2; test-completion should return non-nil
2021-09-14 13:25 bug#50583: 27.2; test-completion should return non-nil Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
@ 2021-09-14 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 8:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry Gutov @ 2021-09-14 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kevin Vigouroux, 50583
On 14.09.2021 16:25, Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> In the following code, I assume that `test-completion' should return a
> non-‘nil’ value because "foo" is a valid completion alternative.
"foo" is not a member of the list '("foobar" "bar" "barfoo"), so that's
not true.
Perhaps you want to use 'try-completion' instead?
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* bug#50583: 27.2; test-completion should return non-nil
2021-09-14 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
@ 2021-09-15 8:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-15 10:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 16:01 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2021-09-15 8:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dmitry Gutov; +Cc: Kevin Vigouroux, 50583
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> On 14.09.2021 16:25, Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
>> In the following code, I assume that `test-completion' should return a
>> non-‘nil’ value because "foo" is a valid completion alternative.
>
> "foo" is not a member of the list '("foobar" "bar" "barfoo"), so
> that's not true.
The doc string here is vague, though:
Return non-nil if STRING is a valid completion.
So perhaps it could be clarified. I think it wants to say something
like "if STRING is in COMPLETIONS", but since COMPLETIONS can be a
function, that's not quite right.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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* bug#50583: 27.2; test-completion should return non-nil
2021-09-15 8:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2021-09-15 10:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 16:01 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dmitry Gutov @ 2021-09-15 10:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: Kevin Vigouroux, 50583
On 15.09.2021 11:13, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> So perhaps it could be clarified. I think it wants to say something
> like "if STRING is in COMPLETIONS", but since COMPLETIONS can be a
> function, that's not quite right.
"Valid completion" should be described somewhere where the completion
tables are described, I guess.
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* bug#50583: 27.2; test-completion should return non-nil
2021-09-15 8:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-15 10:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
@ 2021-09-15 16:01 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-16 12:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2021-09-15 16:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 50583, Dmitry Gutov
Indeed, the documentation is not very clear. It is not known that the
STRING must be an exact match in COMPLETION nor the context of use of
the `test-completion' function.
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