From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#1757: 23.0.60; completion DWIM too clever Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:26:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <007601c96c3a$bba3d8b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Lennart Borgman , 1757@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230835421 9162 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2009 18:43:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 18:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" , 1757@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 01 19:44:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LISXH-0004yv-Ux for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:44:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LISW2-0001V6-UF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LISVy-0001Sp-Vk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LISVx-0001Qp-SB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:43:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43594 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LISVx-0001QZ-MQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:53961) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LISVx-0001un-67 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:43:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n01IhMVp029358; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:43:22 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n01IZ5C0027153; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:35:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Lennart Borgman" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:35:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 1757 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1757-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1757.123083438725733 (code B ref 1757); Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:35:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1757) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 1 Jan 2009 18:26:27 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n01IQNh2025725 for <1757@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:26:25 -0800 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so4221085fgb.43 for <1757@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:26:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=0tXgPhDbRUKwrrYvgIjfBNX6rtV7AjSYN/XvGBybayQ=; b=ttss3YGjeQhwMNR5gG7dU67m6LeJ5GO8WLpV9f5Z7wyde5KNmJQ1s6IEiWvPcPKY3x a5sLqNGz/Byf2VSpFCwmtY7BGs+bDJEvNYPm+9UcHiOXI0G5yyKVzsYlGJ8Hi+Mr4Wl5 lsM87CG/YaiONa1bDFXOV7w0DT6Hmqn7nZbrM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=QCCmDt8ANQ7/hcPPLz/5ejZoEfnIpxRDwp1TpdaYxPcmH1dUL7U2TAkxfNi9kDkFUg 8kBa9Mo7rk1sbLlqrTnn0k6rvLlV3pzDGdtGIZh4Fyc2RS+72YO2Y8wJajn8Kd4G4f/g JzKg1UZtyCK5fgtQjw+VakPUvpUMCAqCwN6pQ= Original-Received: by 10.86.93.17 with SMTP id q17mr10030417fgb.8.1230834382867; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:26:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.86.35.9 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:26:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <007601c96c3a$bba3d8b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:43:26 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:23663 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23589 Archived-At: On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Drew Adams 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 *)?