GNU bug report logs - #55491
All completion fragments get added to obarray

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Message #40 received at 55491 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 00:30:00 +0300

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On 06.06.2022 15:44, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 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.

How about this, then?

Too bad 'forward-symbol' doesn't handle escapings, otherwise we could 
just do (intern-soft (thing-at-point 'symbol)).

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