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24.0.50; partial completion of emacs commands doesn't work

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Message #8 received at 6160 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jaortega <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6160 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rfrancoise <at> debian.org
Subject: Re: bug#6160: 24.0.50;
	partial completion of emacs commands doesn't work
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:25:57 -0400

> As mentioned in the subject, and although `completion-styles' seems to
> have the correct value (it contains basic, partial-completion and
> emacs22), partial completion seems broken for elisp commands: if one
> tries any partial name including dashes in the minibuffer
> (e.g. M-x rep-em-TAB), the completion key provokes a [No match] error
> (in the example, i would have expected report-emacs-bug as a completion).

Indeed, I messed up my last change.  Thanks for pointing it out.
I've installed the patch below which should make it work again,


        Stefan


=== modified file 'lisp/minibuffer.el'
--- lisp/minibuffer.el	2010-05-09 22:39:36 +0000
+++ lisp/minibuffer.el	2010-05-11 13:22:02 +0000
@@ -1835,8 +1835,8 @@
                   (lambda (x)
                     (cond
                      ((stringp x) (regexp-quote x))
-                     ((if (consp group) (memq x group) group)
-                      "\\(.*?\\)" ".*?")))
+                     ((if (consp group) (memq x group) group) "\\(.*?\\)")
+		     (t ".*?")))
                   pattern
                   ""))))
     ;; Avoid pathological backtracking.

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