GNU bug report logs - #42149
Substring and flex completion ignore implicit trailing ‘any’

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dario Gjorgjevski <dario.gjorgjevski <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 10:41:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #124 received at 42149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 42149 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dario Gjorgjevski <dario.gjorgjevski <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#42149: Substring and flex completion ignore implicit
 trailing ‘any’
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:07:56 -0500

> Regardless, if you don't want to touch that funciton, I understand, it
> is used in more places than just completion-pcm--hilit-commonality,
> which really should be called
>
>    completion--given-that-we-know-this-matches-tell-me-where-and-how-well

Hmm... until someone™ added scoring to it, this function did nothing
more than add faces to highlight the common parts and the "first
difference".  So I'd suggest you take it up with that someone ;-)


        Stefan
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