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27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 36554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36554: 27.0.50; Wishlist: `insert-char' should have better completion
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:08:47 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>> Emacs has a bunch of packages for "intuitive" completion, but apparently
>> none of the popular ones (like ido) support completion for `C-x 8 C-m
>> TAB'?  So if you know you want one of the ANGLE letters, it's a bit
>> difficult to complete to.  So it'd be nice if ido (at least?) supported
>> substring completion in that command...
>
> C-x 8 C-m *ANGLE TAB

That helps, but ido (and friends) do completion based on words, while
that will also get TRIANGLE, etc...

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