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User's customization to completion-styles requires tweak to completion-category-defaults

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#38101: User's customization to completion-styles requires tweak to completion-category-defaults
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:35:15 +0200

> From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 15:15:35 +0000
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 38101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> JT >  completion-category-defaults
> JT > needs to be tweaked to "unshadow" the user's customization to
> JT > completion-styles.
> 
> This means that if you customize completion-styles, you also need
> to tweak completion-category-defaults, because the latter shadows
> the former. Stefan thinks this is a bug, and so do I.
> 
> Moreover, Stefan has stated that you need to "constantly" tweak
> completion-category-defaults because other packages might
> add to it.
> 
> I haven't analyzed the problem sufficiently to tell you _why_ the
> shadowing happens, just that it happens.

Thanks, this does explain the issue nicely.

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