GNU bug report logs - #39484
26.3; try-completion bug

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Wanrong Lin <wrglin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 15:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 39484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Wanrong Lin <wrglin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 39484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39484: 26.3; try-completion bug
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:28:34 +0100
On Okt 27 2020, Wanrong Lin wrote:

> I remember this behavior gives me problem in "ido" trying to expand the
> user input to the max common matched text among all candidates, because 
> as you can see, the "expansion" using this method may end up returning
> something that is not common at all for all the candidates.

It isn't?  "xyz" surely is a common prefix of "XyzD" and "XyzAbc",
ignoring case.

Andreas.

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