GNU bug report logs - #1757
23.0.60; completion DWIM too clever

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From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 1757 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: rms <at> gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1757: 23.0.60; completion DWIM too clever
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:26:22 +0100

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:
>> I typed C-x b *d TAB and it offered me as completions `diary'
>> and `old', neither of which starts with a `*'.
>>
>> I typed C-x b *di TAB and it completed to `diary', which is not
>> even a completion of what I typed.
>>
>> It is extremely annoying to discard the user's input characters.
>
> I couldn't agree more. The is (the formerly optional) partial completion at
> work. It is now the default behavior to first try the traditional completion,
> and if that finds no matches, automatically try partial completion.

Is perhaps the problem that partial completion does not respect the
user input (of *)?

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