GNU bug report logs - #51650
Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions* buffer

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Message #44 received at 51650 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 51650 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51650: Autocomplete: first Tab should show *Completions*
 buffer
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:38:56 +0200

> From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 17:27:58 -0300
> Cc: 51650 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > But the difference is that until the first TAB the user cannot know
> > whether there is any completion.  Only after Emacs doesn't complete is
> > that fact known.
> 
> First of all, I'm assuming:
> 
> - The initial value is taken from the current working directory so
> it's always a valid completion.

The completion doesn't know that.  It's just what the caller arranged
for it to display.

> - TAB never completes across the directory boundary.

But it can complete less than that.

> You seem to be saying that the TAB that produced ~/Desktop/ from
> ~/Desk is adding some worthy information about the contents of
> ~/Desktop, and therefore about possible completions, that
> wouldn't be there if the user, say, launched emacs from ~/Desktop
> as in #3. But, for the life of me, I cannot see it :(

The completion doesn't know where it was launched from.  It just knows
what the user typed, and in the "~/" case the user didn't type
anything.

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