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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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: bug#42149: Substring and flex completion ignore implicit trailing ‘any’
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:20:49 -0500

> @@ -3165,7 +3165,7 @@ completion-pcm--optimize-pattern
>          ;; the final position of point (because `point' gets turned
>          ;; into a non-greedy ".*?" regexp whereas we need it to be
>          ;; greedy when it's at the end, see bug#38458).
> -        (`(point) (setq p nil)) ;Implicit terminating `any'.
> +        (`(point) (setq p '(any)))  ;Implicit terminating `any'.

There is always an implicit terminating `any`, and I'd really prefer to
keep it implicit.


        Stefan
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