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#78815
31.0.50; completions truncated
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Reported by: Colin Baxter <m43cap <at> yandex.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:03:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 31.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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1. emacs -Q <RET>
2. C-h f <RET> (for example)
3. completion <TAB> (for example)
4. Completion buffer opens with 131 possible completions
5. In foot of buffer is button that reads:
[Completions truncated, click here to insert the rest.]
6. If button is clicked then further completions are shown.
I didn't think was a bug but others suggest it should be reported.
Best Wishes,
Colin Baxter
In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 1, i686-pc-linux-gnu, cairo version 1.14.8)
of 2025-06-17 built on bluestar
Repository revision: 376bd36f340b858a998ef0d43e5ebbd62149927a
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11902000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Configured using:
'configure --prefix=/home/redknight/local/opt/emacs-dev
--with-x-toolkit=no --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --without-sqlite3
--without-sound --with-mailutils --with-cairo --with-imagemagick
--with-native-compilation=no --with-tree-sitter=no
--without-libsystemd'
Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ
IMAGEMAGICK JPEG LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY
INOTIFY OLDXMENU PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP THREADS TIFF X11 XDBE XIM
XINERAMA XINPUT2 XPM XRANDR ZLIB
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
eldoc-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
minibuffer-regexp-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
indent-tabs-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
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mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils
mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr
mail-utils warnings icons cl-loaddefs cl-lib rmc iso-transl tooltip
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elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd touch-screen
tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace
newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar
rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
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cairo xinput2 x multi-tty move-toolbar make-network-process
tty-child-frames emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 8 41042 9892) (symbols 24 5513 0) (strings 16 12558 2499)
(string-bytes 1 300140) (vectors 8 9732) (vector-slots 4 112314 8282)
(floats 8 25 3) (intervals 28 276 25) (buffers 560 10))
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> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de
> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap <at> yandex.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 07:15:23 +0100
>
>
> >>>>> Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <Michael> writes:
> >> Colin Baxter <m43cap <at> yandex.com> writes:
> >>>>> This part has not been clear to me so far: you scroll the
> >>>>> completions buffer with the mouse.
>
> >>> That is strictly correct, but I need to clarify it.
> >>>
> >>> 1. If I use the mouse to put the cursor in the completion
> >>> buffer, I can then use either C-v or the down arrow to move down
> >>> the buffer. In both cases, I see the button.
> >>>
> >>> 2. The only route I have found in order not to see the button is
> >>> to use multiple <TAB>.
>
> >> Thanks.
>
> >> AFAIU, this is expected given the current design. Do we want to
> >> fix this?
>
> >> My personal opinion is that we could indeed improve the user
> >> experience here, since scrolling the completions using the
> >> ordinary scroll commands is something that people just will try.
> >> Could this be improved so that the result would work reliably?
>
> > I have no strong option. Perhaps it would be enough to suggest
> > that using tabs in future would eliminate the button?
>
> Perhaps this should now be closed as `not a bug'?
No further comments, so I'm now closing this bug.
This bug report was last modified 6 days ago.
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