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All completion fragments get added to obarray

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Message #37 received at 55491 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 55491 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, jdtsmith <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#55491: All completion fragments get added to obarray
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:44:15 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> 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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