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29.2.50; choose-completion on an emacs22-style completion deletes text after point

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, 70968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#70968: 29.2.50; choose-completion on an emacs22-style completion deletes text after point
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:00:46 +0300

> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 18:18:46 +0300
> Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, juri <at> linkov.net, 70968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
> 
> > I'm okay with adding a new style, per B, but why do we need to
> > deprecate emacs22 at the same time?  Let users who want this new
> > behavior customize their completion styles to use this new style
> > instead of emacs22.
> 
> I don't envy the person who's going to write documentation and has to 
> describe the distinction between these two styles, that they differ in 
> this particular place of the UI, and are otherwise the same.
> 
> Deprecating the old style would at least say that this complication is a 
> wart which would someday go away, and we could take a shortcut in the 
> implementation (e.g. hardcode the value `emacs22` in some check).

If documentation difficulties are the main issue with my proposal,
then you can stop worrying.

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