GNU bug report logs - #13322
24.3.50; `completion-all-sorted-completions': sorting and duplicate deletion

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Message #17 received at 13322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 13322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#13322: 24.3.50;
 `completion-all-sorted-completions': sorting and duplicate deletion
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:15:36 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 1. Please provide for `completion-all-sorted-completions' to sort using
>> a function other than what is returned by `cycle-sort-function' from the
>> metadata.  E.g., an optional arg SORT-FUN.
>
>> 2. Please make duplicate deletion optional.  E.g., an optional arg
>> DONT-REMOVE-DUPS.
>
> Since the completion-all-sorted-completions function just returns the
> value of the completion-all-sorted-completions cache when that cache is
> populated, it clearly can't take arguments since they'd not always
> be obeyed.

And as I understand it from recent discussion, it doesn't really matter
whether duplicates are removed or not, since they are removed at a later
stage.

So I'm not seeing anything to be done here.  Closing.

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