From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: completing-read return meta-information? Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:51:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86y4g6zcuo.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <7c37cd21-a9e0-48fa-b5a2-a32595c43dda@default> <86twquxnpa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <861tdrwwhx.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442865127 32202 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2015 19:52:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 21 21:51:57 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ze780-0004yL-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:51:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ze780-0006x4-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:51:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ze77Z-0006u2-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:51:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ze77W-0003Fq-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:51:29 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:51244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ze77W-0003Ec-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t8LJpOcq004457; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:51:24 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 42BDB6614D; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:51:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <861tdrwwhx.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:46:50 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5436=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5436> : inlines <3851> : streams <1509027> : uri <2045807> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190213 Archived-At: > It also achieves the goal of returning an absolute string from > completing-read; that required advice on completing-read-default to call > the new function completion-get-data-string. Why can't you make completion-try-completion return an absolute filename when there's only one match? That would eliminate the need for those advices. Stefan PS: Also, as a user, I think I'd rather see names like "dir/file" than "file".