GNU bug report logs - #49761
file-cache-minibuffer-complete has become unusable for duplicate file names in MacOSX 27.x emacs

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 49761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, aaron <at> brightbytes.net
Subject: bug#49761: file-cache-minibuffer-complete has become unusable for duplicate file names in MacOSX 27.x emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 20:58:55 +0300

>> 4. 'make C-TAB' then the completions buffer is displayed and the cursor
>>    jumps to the beginning because there are completions that don't begin
>>    with the same prefix "make" such as flymake.el, pmake.el, ob-makefile.el.
>
> Is this reasonable behavior?  It seems to try second-guessing what the
> user will do next, but that guess is not necessarily correct.

I don't know, this is the default behavior for completions
that don't share a common prefix.

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