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28.0.50; minibuffer completion of ".../*/*" shouldn't be "...//"

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 41705 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#41705: 28.0.50; minibuffer completion of ".../*/*" shouldn't be "...//"
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:18:01 +0200

Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> I selectively applied commits onto emacs-26 rather than bisecting, and
>> it seems to point to [1].  Paging Stefan.
>
> Thanks for that!
>
> I'd actually suspected the same file as well, and started playing around
> with the code a little. I'm suspicious of the code in
> completion-pcm--optimize-pattern which turns a '(star) pattern into
> nil. That's correct as far as which strings qualify as matches, but it's
> incorrect because it doesn't survive the completion-pcm--pattern->string
> round trip.
>
> I think we get something closer to Emacs-26 behavior back with this
> patch.

This was a couple of months ago, but was apparently never applied?

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