From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 1757@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1757: 23.0.60; completion DWIM too clever
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:26:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50901011026q1b2c4fc9q8ab22a97c0ff7558@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007601c96c3a$bba3d8b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> I typed C-x b *d TAB and it offered me as completions `diary'
>> and `old', neither of which starts with a `*'.
>>
>> I typed C-x b *di TAB and it completed to `diary', which is not
>> even a completion of what I typed.
>>
>> It is extremely annoying to discard the user's input characters.
>
> I couldn't agree more. The is (the formerly optional) partial completion at
> work. It is now the default behavior to first try the traditional completion,
> and if that finds no matches, automatically try partial completion.
Is perhaps the problem that partial completion does not respect the
user input (of *)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-01 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-01 15:48 bug#1757: 23.0.60; completion DWIM too clever Richard M Stallman
2009-01-01 17:59 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-01 18:26 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-01-01 19:10 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-02 17:14 ` Richard M Stallman
2011-09-11 22:10 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-11 22:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2009-01-02 17:14 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-05 22:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-05 22:25 ` Processed: " Emacs bug Tracking System
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