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: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:43:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506290350.j5T3o7c25749@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506300229.j5U2TrL01627@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200506301832.j5UIWE505884@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120161785 13740 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2005 20:03:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 22:03:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5FS-0007WW-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:02:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5Nm-00057H-6y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5D4-0000bo-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5Cr-0000Uf-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5Cp-0000PS-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:00:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Do51J-0007v0-J3; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B200A2CEA9F; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:43:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE114AC00A; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:43:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1D8BEE6A42; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:43:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200506301832.j5UIWE505884@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:32:14 -0500 (CDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.847, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39975 > I don't like the idea of adding "" at the beginning of a completion table. > Here I have a good reason, which is that it changes the behavior: > (try-completion "" '("aaa" "aab" "aac")) => "aa" > (try-completion "" '("" "aaa" "aab" "aac")) => "" ELISP> (try-completion "" '([] "aaa" "aab" "aac")) > "aa" > So, [] should be consed to the front of the list. Yuck, Stefan