Subject: Re: bug#62700: 29.0.60; minibuffer-{previous,next,choose}-completion behave unintuitively when point is not at end of buffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:51:58 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], Spencer Baugh <[email-masked]>
> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:18:57 +0300
> 
> >>>> It just needs more testing for different categories of completion.
> >>>
> >>> Which categories do you have in mind?
> >>
> >> Actually, I can't find categories where it could fail.
> >> So your patch looks safe to push.
> >
> > Can we go ahead and push it to Emacs master, then?  I will work on the
> > changing-only-new-code backport for Emacs 29 as Eli requested.
> 
> But your patch changes only new code.

For some definition of "new", yes.

> Maybe your patch still could be pushed to emacs-29 because it fixes
> the new feature.

Whether this is a bugfix is arguable.

In any case, we need to hold Spencer's contributions until his legal
paperwork is finished.  So we cannot yet install any of this, not even
on master.