Subject: bug#27158: 25.2; Eliminating old usage of completing-read from built-in files

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 12:27:04 +0300

On 6/1/17 5:23 AM, Drew Adams wrote:

>> (defun completing-read (prompt collection &optional predicate
>>                                  require-match initial-input hist def
>>                                  inherit-input-method)
>>     (funcall completing-read-function
>>              prompt collection predicate require-match
>>              initial-input hist (or def "") inherit-input-method))
>>
>> should suffice.
> 
> It doesn't suffice.

Citation needed.

>> My context is "the whole of Emacs". That's what Ido Ubiquitous
>> is supposed to be affecting and improving.
> 
> Really?  Even when `ido-ubiquitous-mode' is off?

Obviously not. Also not when it's not installed, in case you were wondering.

> Again: What prevents you from making `completing-read' behave
> that way (or any other way) within your context?  Why is it
> insufficient for you to do that in your value of
> `completing-read-function' or by advising `completing-read'
> for the duration?
> 
> No answer.

You fail at reading.

> I change the behavior of `completing-read' considerably
> more than what you've described, but I do it only inside
> `icicle-mode'.  When the mode is off, the vanilla behavior
> returns to `completing-read'.  Not a big deal.  Normal.

And yet, you haven't contributed anything helpful to this discussion so far.