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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: 19152@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19152: bug#19013: bug#19152: 25.0.50; Suggestions for M-x commands
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:57:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr3wssl7j.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbm5rsij.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net> (Ivan Shmakov's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:01:56 +0000")

> 	One more reason for the new features to provide a way for the
> 	user to opt out, – just in case they turn to be buggy.

Options to circumvent bugs are a bad idea, in general (with exceptions,
of course, like everything, such as when the bug is particularly hard to
fix, or occurs in some code we can't control).

>>> I believe there should be a variable to customize this behavior
>>> (say, suggest-shorter-command-limit; defaulting to 5, but with nil
>>> as an option to disable such suggestions altogether.)  As a
>>> workaround, I’ve simply disabled it entirely (see the patch MIMEd.)
>> I don't think that's needed.
> 	The mere fact that bug#19152 was filed suggests otherwise.

An option to turn the feature off is fine.  An option to choose the
number of chars we have to gain is not.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-24 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-10 21:51 bug#19013: 25.0.50; Suggestions for M-x commands Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-11  1:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-11  2:08   ` Jay Belanger
2014-11-11  4:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-11  2:45   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-16 19:39   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-16 19:41   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-19  7:14 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-23 11:50   ` bug#19152: " Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-24  4:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-24  7:01       ` bug#19013: bug#19152: " Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-24 14:57         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-11-25  9:09           ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-25 14:50             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-25 15:45               ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-25 16:51                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-25 18:10                   ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-26  2:22                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-30 15:22                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-25 17:38                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-24 13:12       ` bug#19152: bug#19013: bug#19152: bug#19013: " Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28 23:15       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-02 10:14         ` bug#19152: " Ivan Shmakov
2014-12-02 13:57           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-09 11:37             ` Brendan O'Dea

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