GNU bug report logs - #70968
29.2.50; choose-completion on an emacs22-style completion deletes text after point

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, juri <at> linkov.net, 70968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Subject: Re: bug#70968: 29.2.50; choose-completion on an emacs22-style
 completion deletes text after point
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:12:47 -0400

> Ping!  How should we proceed with this bug report?

I don't quite understand the question.

After:

Eli wrote:
> Stefan wrote:
> > I'm not sure it's terribly important to preserve this detail of the
> > behavior of `Emacs-22`.  The `emacs22` style does not aim to provide the
> > illusion you're running an old Emacs.  I named it that way because
> > I couldn't come up with a good descriptive name for it.  If it
> > misbehaves, I don't see a need to be bug-compatible, especially since
> > this doesn't affect ELisp code but users.
>
> I think it does, sorry.  Suchj old behavior is a de-facto standard.
> If we change that, we should at least have a knob to get back the old
> behavior.

I thought you had decided that the current behavior is not a bug.
I'm fine with this choice and we can close it as such.
Tho maybe we'd want to deprecate that `emacs22` style because of
those odd cases.


        Stefan

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