From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [harder@ifa.au.dk: Speed of all-completions] Date: 21 Jun 2004 00:35:14 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200406151542.i5FFgaG25896@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200406181845.i5IIjuj07569@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087770938 558 80.91.224.253 (20 Jun 2004 22:35:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 21 00:35:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcAuT-0006Jw-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:35:33 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcAuS-0005p8-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:35:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcAvg-0000T0-2W for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcAvd-0000Sk-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcAvd-0000SX-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcAvd-0000SU-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcAuI-0006XW-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcAuB-0007AL-PZ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:35:16 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25134 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25134 Richard Stallman 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum