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25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.

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Message #44 received at 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-.
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:50:41 +0100

On Tue, Dec 30 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> I thought the problem that Eli was pointing out is that he requested
>> "display_line" and there is only one "display_line", so instead of
>> showing 3 entries (each one including "display_line" as a substring) we
>> should directly jump to the perfect match.
>
> Indeed, that's what I meant.
>
> It is okay to display other, less perfect, matches as well, but the
> exact match should be displayed without asking me to type anything
> else.

In other words: you want the old UI back.

Helmut

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