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25.2; tmm should use completing-read-default

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From: Ryan Thompson <rct <at> thompsonclan.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>,
 27193 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27193: 25.2; tmm should use completing-read-default
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:10:13 +0000

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Or to put the same thing in a more user-centric context, I think users
would be surprised if changing the value of completing-read-function
changed the behavior of tmm.

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:08 PM Ryan Thompson <rct <at> thompsonclan.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 6:19 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Ido's completion behavior is as far from that of
>> vanilla `completing-read' as is Tmm's completion behavior
>> ("the result").
>>
>
> This is kind of my point. If someone calls ido-completing-read, you
> wouldn't expect it to do something different based on the value of
> completing-read-function, even if it ido used completing-read internally
> (which it might have actually done in the past, but currently does not),
> because by calling ido-completing-read the code has already specified it
> wants ido completion. Similarly, tmm is implementing a very different
> behavior from completing-read that is only recognizable as regular
> completion if you specifically go looking for leaks in the abstraction, and
> for the same reason I don't think tmm should be paying attention to
> completing-read-function.
>

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