Subject: Re: bug#55205: 28.1.50; completion--replace illegally mutates completion candidates

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 21:07:07 +0200

Daniel Mendler <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yes. Just disambiguate the candidate strings. For example in the imdb
> use case, you could append the year when the movie appeared.

Like I said, there's sometimes several movies the same year with the
same name.

> You would necessarily have to start a *selection process*,
> e.g., by opening the Completions buffer or by rotating the candidate
> list in Icomplete.

Yes, completion is impossible here, so the user has to select between
textually identical options.  But that's OK and an intuitive interface.

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