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: mail <at> daniel-mendler.de, 78658 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: psainty <at> orcon.net.nz, eliz <at> gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: 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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