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[PATCH] Consistently add wildcards for completion-pcm-leading-wildcard

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Message #11 received at 74772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 74772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#74772: [PATCH] Consistently add wildcards for
 completion-pcm-leading-wildcard
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:14:15 -0500

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:48:23 -0500
>> From:  Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>>  (defcustom completion-pcm-leading-wildcard nil
>> -  "If non-nil, partial-completion completes as if there's a leading wildcard.
>> +  "If non-nil, partial-completion adds a leading wildcard for each word.
>
> The modified wording is misleading, because it says something that
> doesn't really happen (as the rest of the doc string reveals).

Okay, how about:

If non-nil, PCM completes as if there's a wildcard before each word.

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