Subject: Re: bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:36:07 +0300

On 04/27/2015 10:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> And btw, there is another confusing difference between these back-ends
> that somehow bubbles up to the UI level: the elisp-mode back-end only
> supports finding multiple matches via completion, and completion, at
> least by default, only finds candidates whose leading substring
> matches what you type.

The substring vs. prefix matching is an interesting distinction. Our 
completion tables only work with prefix matching.