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24.3.50; Some completion functions in Emacs still return a function of no argument

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#16496: closed (Re: bug#16496: 24.3.50; Some completion
 functions in Emacs still return a function of no argument)
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:41:01 +0000

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Your bug report

#16496: 24.3.50; Some completion functions in Emacs still return a function of no argument

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 16496-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16496: 24.3.50; Some completion functions in Emacs still
 return a function of no argument
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 00:40:02 +0200

On 06.12.2020 16:59, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov<dgutov <at> yandex.ru>  writes:
> 
>> ...which is officially "discouraged" and doesn't work with company-capf.
>>
>> semantic-completion-at-point-function
>> nxml-completion-at-point-function
> These two no longer exist?
> 
>> message-completion-function
> This was reworked in 47a767c24e9cc4323432e29103b0a2cc46f8f3e4 in 2019,
> so I'm not sure whether this is an issue any more?  (I'm a bit vague
> about how the completion system actually works.)
> 
>> The last one also pops up a BBDB buffer upon successful completion (when
>> BBDB is used, of course), so fixing it might need some additional effort
>> to keep BBDB integration from breaking.
> Is this still an issue after the 2019 rewrite of the function?

Looks like these functions have all been "fixed" indeed.

Thanks for the bump, closing!

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50;
 Some completion functions in Emacs still return a function of no
 argument
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:19:08 +0200

...which is officially "discouraged" and doesn't work with company-capf.

semantic-completion-at-point-function
nxml-completion-at-point-function
message-completion-function

The last one also pops up a BBDB buffer upon successful completion (when
BBDB is used, of course), so fixing it might need some additional effort
to keep BBDB integration from breaking.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.6)
 of 2014-01-13 on axl
Repository revision: 116011 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca-20140113153301-ozd3taipkkc7p5cr
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11405000
System Description:	Ubuntu 13.10

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