GNU bug report logs - #78719
30.1; [PATCH] Add functions `string-common-prefix' and `string-try-completion'

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From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, juri <at> linkov.net, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 78719 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#78719: 30.1; [PATCH] Add functions `string-common-prefix' and `string-try-completion'
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 02:59:24 +1200

On 2025-07-06 02:38, Daniel Mendler wrote:
> A non-nil STRING is a special case, an optimization, which is also
> covered by REGEXP-LIST by using a regexp with an anchor. It should
> not come before IGNORE-CASE.

That was also my initial preference for the argument sequence so that
the filters were all together as a logical group, but Eli felt that it
was more useful to have STRING before IGNORE-CASE, so I wrote the code
with it that way around, and only grouped the filters in the docs.

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