From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [alinsoar@voila.fr: EVAL and mouse selection in *Completions*] Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:35:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <17900.56970.398870.121858@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <9cr6s3c9cy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <45ED2FF7.5000400@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173242287 22971 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2007 04:38:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 04:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 05:38:00 2007 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 1HOnuX-0001KD-3Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:37:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOnuZ-00072F-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:37:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOnuM-0006zf-V3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:37:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOnuL-0006zS-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:37:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOnuL-0006zP-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:37:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HOnuH-0008Dr-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:37:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HOnsV-0000hl-Sn; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:35:51 -0500 X-Spook: Panama security NORAD SEAL Team 6 cracking IDEA CISU X-Ran: Z|[Kmc{Ta5}k5~[{rY-gpqL|ZsA5qZHcPjCV~$oY4$0,MO=2QKP*Kz/e$w#5jFvtT=BTT* X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <45ED2FF7.5000400@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:10:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:67477 Archived-At: martin rudalics wrote: > As far as I can tell we now have > > - my patch (where the term `try-completion-old' is conflicting according > to Richard) > > - your patch > > - Chong's patch > > If Chong's patch resolves the erasure-from-bob problem for _any_ > completion mode (apparently people never ever used symbol completion and > the recent attention given to partial completion mode is a plain mystery > to me ;-)) we should probably revise your patch and install it. I thought your try-completion-old was a better, more comprehensive solution than mine. But I agree the name is poor. Why not call it PC-try-completion? Also, shouldn't it return STRING, rather than "", for an exact match? I think it must be the right solution for the 'sequencep t' problem, and should be installed. With regards to the partial completion erasing buffer thing, I don't know if we need to tweak completion-base-size, apply the complex fix, or both. I have little idea how anyone can have used partial completion for much of anything, given all the problems it seems to have.