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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, 60252@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 11:48:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva63fl742.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o7rv8nh1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:30:50 +0200")

> I'm actually wondering why Martin considers this a backward
> incompatibility.  set-face-a cannot be uniquely completed to a single
> function name, since there are 3 completion candidates.

But it can be completed to a string which is an exact match.

> So it sounds like the Emacs 28 behavior was actually a bug,

Whether it was the right behavior or not can be argued, but that's how
"must match" has behaved for many many years (probably at least since
Emacs-19), AFAIK.

> which is now fixed?

We may as well revert that part of my patch.


        Stefan






  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-22 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-22  9:21 bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation martin rudalics
2022-12-22 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-22 14:54   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-22 15:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-22 16:41       ` martin rudalics
2022-12-22 16:48       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-12-22 16:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-22 21:14           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-23  7:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-22 21:32 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-22 23:25   ` Drew Adams
2022-12-23  7:02     ` Juri Linkov
2022-12-23 14:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-23 16:36       ` Drew Adams
2022-12-23  7:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-23 16:47       ` Drew Adams
2022-12-23 18:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-23 20:45           ` Drew Adams
2022-12-24  6:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-23  7:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-23 11:21     ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-23 12:39       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-23  8:33   ` martin rudalics
2022-12-23 11:19     ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-24  8:38       ` martin rudalics
2022-12-23 11:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24  8:38       ` martin rudalics

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