GNU bug report logs - #78658
30.1; [PATCH] Dired feature suggestion: dired-on-marked-files-in-all-buffers

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, "Drew Adams via Bug reports for
 GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 "78658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <78658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 "juri <at> linkov.net" <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: bug#78658: 30.1; [PATCH] Dired feature
 suggestion: dired-on-marked-files-in-all-buffers
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 20:12:16 +0000

> >> Feel free to suggest patches for the documentation, but please
> >> remember that results of calling completion functions can depend on
> >> the completion styles in effect, so if we want to advertise this as a
> >> way of producing the largest common prefix, we should probably bind
> >> completion-styles to something specific around this call.
> >
> > That may be a good point.  In a way it's too bad that
> > `completion-styles' affects `try-completion'.
> 
> Note that the `completion-styles' only affect
> `completion-try-completion' and `completion-all-completions', but not
> the primitive `try-completion', which always computes the common prefix.

Thanks, I'd forgotten that.

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