Subject: bug#55491: All completion fragments get added to obarray

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:44:15 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Looking at the possible problems, I guess the regexp doesn't account
> for possible escapings? Like a symbol 'let\ s\ go\ to\ the\ mall',
> which shouldn't be mistaken for 'let'. That would require a more
> complex regexp.

Yes, so that won't be the right thing.  It'd be nice if we had a version
of `read' that's more like "read the next symbol but return nil if it's
not interned already" for these cases.

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