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: completing-read, incomplete documentation for "programmed completion" Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:13:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18785.23387.13834.555133@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18785.53306.470861.421529@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231193981 29718 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2009 22:19:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 05 23:20:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LJxoW-0001op-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:20:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJxnF-0004oQ-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJxh3-0002XV-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:13:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJxh2-0002XG-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41224 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJxh1-0002X1-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:14790) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LJxh1-0001dX-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:13:03 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArMEAP0UYknO+JnM/2dsb2JhbACBbMwbhXKBaQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.36,334,1228107600"; d="scan'208";a="31825433" Original-Received: from 206-248-153-204.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.153.204]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 05 Jan 2009 17:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2927A84D0; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:13:03 -0500 (EST) 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:107616 Archived-At: > 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