all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: test-completion and hash-tables
Date: 18 Dec 2003 18:05:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvptel91eb.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312150317.hBF3Hxg16766@raven.dms.auburn.edu>

> `try-completion' and `all-completions' use `compare-strings' to compare
> strings, in its case-sensitive or case-insensitive variant, depending
> on `completion-ignore-case', independently of how the collection of
> strings is specified (alist, list, obarray, hash-table, function).
> However, when the collection of strings is specified as a hash-table,
> then `test-completion' uses whichever test the hash-table uses and, in
> particular, `completion-ignore-case' is ignored.

This is a bug.
I completely forgot the issue of case-fold when writing the code.
But I think the same problem is present with obarrays (tho you might want
to check), in which case it´s a very long standing bug.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-18 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-15  3:17 test-completion and hash-tables Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-15  3:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-15  4:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-18 23:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-12-18 23:57   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-20  0:28     ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-21 23:28       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-20 16:58     ` Luc Teirlinck

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=jwvptel91eb.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca \
    --to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.