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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read, incomplete documentation for "programmed completion"
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:13:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6xpl7w5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18785.53306.470861.421529@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:17:46 +0100")

> Also, the different behaviour of `completing-read' breaks backwards
> compatibility. In fact, I stumbled across this because of some lisp
> code doing "programmed completion", which doesn't work properly with
> Emacs 23 anymore (because it accounts only for nil, t, and `lambda').

The intention is for it to 100% backwards compatible.  So please report
this bug.


        Stefan





      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-05  0:59 completing-read, incomplete documentation for "programmed completion" Ulrich Mueller
2009-01-05  2:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-05  9:17   ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-01-05 22:13     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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