GNU bug report logs - #16604
24.3.50; False negatives in lisp-completion-at-point

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:47:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16604: 24.3.50; False negatives in lisp-completion-at-point
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:05:18 +0100

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

>> 3. See it get automatically completed to "coooooooon", even though there
>> are many dynamic variables that start with "co".
>
> Right, the completion first tries locally let-bound vars.  It only tries
> to complete against global vars once this fails.

Very bad IMO, what you do here is assuming the user wants to complete
against the let bounded var, which is maybe not the case.

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