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

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Message #23 received at 22324 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 22324 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22324: 25.0.50; completion-category-defaults style doesn't
 override completion-styles (gets prepended instead)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:10:40 +0100

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> On 01/08/2016 03:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Thanks, that wasn't clear from the problem description.  Normally,
>> when someone says "the documentation doesn't describe the behavior
>> accurately", they mean the documentation should be updated.
>
> Right, sorry. Poor wording on my part.
>
> But if you were talking about a documentation fix, changing the list
> in `(emacs) Completion Styles' to include `partial-completion' is not
> a good fix semantically, because the result would still contain the
> word "only".

This bug report is a bit on the vague side.

It looks like `partial-completion' is documented in that node?

The subject mentions "doesn't override", but is that about
`completion-category-overrides' instead?

---
This overrides the defaults specified in `completion-category-defaults'."
---

And it does indeed prepend:

(defun completion--category-override (category tag)
  (or (assq tag (cdr (assq category completion-category-overrides)))
      (assq tag (cdr (assq category completion-category-defaults)))))

But...  I think saying that that "overrides" is fine?

So it's unclear what's suggested in this bug report.

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