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 #29 received at 16604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 16604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16604: 24.3.50; False negatives in lisp-completion-at-point
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:24:54 -0500

> I guess it's true that if you choose among a list of completions (or
> if you use completion cycling), the extra elements from obarray aren't
> nearly as problematic as if you rely on just "plain completion".

So maybe "merge" is indeed a better default than "in-turn".

The behavior I'm looking for in completion-at-point should probably be
obtained more along the lines of what is done in file-name completion
where completion-ignored-extensions is used before calling
try-completion.


        Stefan
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