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#70968
29.2.50; choose-completion on an emacs22-style completion deletes text after point
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Message #29 received at 70968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:08:56 +0300
> Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, 70968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net,
> monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
>
> On 16/05/2024 21:25, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> I don't think that would be required exactly.
> >>
> >> The problem here (IIUC) is that completion behaves differently with the
> >> emacs22 style depending on whether the execution path went through
> >> choose-completion (which is not a method of completion style but a
> >> common subroutine) or not (when completion--do-completion performed
> >> expansion).
> > I understand that much. But what did these two (or their
> > then-equivalents) do in Emacs 22 and Emacs 23?
>
> I'm guessing they behaved incorrectly (or however we want to call the
> inconsistent behavior), but I don't have a compiled Emacs 22/23 around,
> and they might be difficult to build.
>
> Note that we fixed bug#48356 not too long ago, which is from the same
> general area, and it probably originated from before Emacs 22/23 too.
>
> It's worth looking for edge cases where we'd strongly prefer the current
> behavior, and they might exist, but so far I only know of situations
> where the change would be for the better, or the user might be okay with
> either (example at the end of https://debbugs.gnu.org/72705#35).
Ping! How should we proceed with this bug report?
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