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25.0.50; completion-category-defaults style doesn't override completion-styles (gets prepended instead)

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 22324 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22324: 25.0.50; completion-category-defaults style doesn't override completion-styles (gets prepended instead)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:59:14 -0500

Dmitry Gutov [2022-01-28 04:37:36] wrote:
> On 26.01.2022 15:36, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss
> army knife of text editors wrote:
>> We can probably have our cake and eat it too by adding a `fail`
>> completion style.  Such a style would always take responsibility
>> (i.e. would never return nil to delegate to subsequent styles), but
>> would always return a "useless" value that gives no completions.
> *If* we did end up adding such style, would the default value of
>  completion-category-defaults include 'fail' at the end of its every line?

No, since the fallback was chosen specifically for
`completion-category-defaults`, we'd want to keep it for the cases that
are already present at least.


        Stefan

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