Re: [harder@ifa.au.dk: Speed of all-completions]

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     It probably is possible to use all-completions and friends in an
>     unusual way (that is, for purposes other than minibuffer completion),
>     where PREDICATE _could_ ask minibuffer questions.  _If so_, then we
>     either have to stick with the present version or apply your patch.
> 
> Let's apply that patch and stop discussing this, so we can spend
> our time fixing other bugs, or working (for after the next release)
> on some of the items in etc/TODO, or something else useful.

I applied the patch (after renaming bind_count to bindcount for
consistency with other non-Lisp-accessible variables).  Should be
close to fast in most cases, I guess; and between the two basic
choices of just dropping the work and committing it, the latter seemed
saner.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum