Subject: Re: bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:30:14 +0200

>> > This is not (necessarily) about partial completion. The new
>> > feature is that a list of completion methods is used, in
>> > order, to try to complete user input. That list is the
>> > value of `completion-styles', which by default is `(basic
>> > partial-completion)'.
>>
>> I think we should replace `partial-completion' in the default
>> value of `completion-styles' with a new completion method, e.g.
>> `confirm-partial-completion'.
>
> Providing `confirm-partial-completion' as another alternative completion style
> is fine, but why make it the default behavior? What's wrong with the traditional
> behavior as default?

More users will be able to use all the benefits of partial completion
without its annoyances.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/