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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 11718@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11718: 24.1.50; `all-completions' returns results with wrong case
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:48:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7guy82be.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F5C37F739E624CC988480B69ED37858B@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 23 Jun 2012 07:18:00 -0700")

> But is it not the case that `completing-read' should return an actual
> completion candidate (or a string copy, but with the same case at
> least)?

Usually, yes, but when quoting is involved, this is not so clear.
If the user typed C-x C-f $TMP/to TAB she liked "$TMP" so Emacs should
not replace it with "/var/private-tmp-f71dbe52628a3f83a77ab494817525c6/Total"
but with "$TMP/Total".  IOW some of the result should come from the
user's input and some of it from the completion table.

It's already difficult for Emacs to figure out that "tal" is what was
added, so currently it doesn't try to see that "/to" was changed into
"/To" and that this change is not a form of quoting and should hence be
reflected in the user's input.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-23 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-15 18:58 bug#11718: 24.1.50; `all-completions' returns results with wrong case Michael Heerdegen
2012-06-23  4:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-23 14:18   ` Drew Adams
2012-06-23 15:48     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-06-23 21:01       ` Drew Adams
2012-06-24  4:38         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-24 14:33           ` Drew Adams
2012-06-24 16:38             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-24 20:20               ` Drew Adams
2012-06-25  1:38                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-26  2:17                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-06-26 13:06                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-23 19:51     ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-07-08 23:17 ` npostavs

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