From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities.
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:42:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvu0jfab11.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506301828.j5UISL305879@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:28:21 -0500 (CDT)")
> I am not arguing for allowing lists of symbols rather than lists of
> strings, but mixed lists of strings and symbols _are_ currently allowed
> and try-completion and all-completions now nearly everywhere treat symbols
> as being completely equivalent to (symbol-name 'symbol) since the
> following change made relatively recently (I thought we were in a feature
> freeze, but anyway):
I understand that. I was just arguing against that recent change.
> 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")) => ""
> Of course, the person consing "" to the front of the completion table
> will have to write his code to expect the second answer.
What if the code *needs* the first answer?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-30 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 2:27 Bugs in newly added completion capabilities Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-28 18:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29 3:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-29 20:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-30 2:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 7:48 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-30 7:50 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-30 12:51 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-30 17:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-30 18:28 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-07-01 8:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-07-01 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-02 12:32 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-30 18:32 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-30 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-01 4:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-01 4:36 ` Miles Bader
2005-07-01 7:33 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-01 7:55 ` Miles Bader
2005-07-01 8:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-07-01 22:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-01 8:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-30 21:29 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-29 3:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
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