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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, Wanrong Lin <wrglin <at> gmail.com>,
 39484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39484: 26.3; try-completion bug
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 15:17:10 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> The current design is trying to be conservative, in the sense that it
> tries to avoid returning a poor result, at the cost of sometimes failing
> to return a better result.  It does it by refraining from mix-and-match:
> either the whole result comes from the user input or the whole result
> comes from *one* of the candidates.

I've now mentioned something like this in the doc string of the function
in Emacs 29.

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