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

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Message #37 received at 22324 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 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: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 04:35:18 +0300

On 06.12.2021 05:25, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>> As a user, I might try to override it with an entry in
>> completion-category-overrides, to use a stricter style like
>> 'partial-completion' or even 'basic'.
> 
> Well, it overrides the specific tag/category -- but
> completion-category-overrides doesn't (by being non-nil) override the
> entirety of completion-category-defaults.

Perhaps a better word is "prepends".

> So it's two types of overrides.
If we use the language from the nadvice package, it performs the 
"before-until" combination, rather than the "override" one.

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